Clear-glass accessories will capture the sun and reflect shafts of light to emphasize greenery in a landscape. Here are 10 of our favorite clear glass garden accessories:
Made in a family-owned studio in Mexico, an Anti-Fly Sphere made of borosilicate glass has a clear finish and hangs from a heavy-duty leather rope; $85 from Delao.
A glass Fruit Fly Trap stands on three legs and has an opening in the bottom to attract fruit flies.
A watertight terrarium, designer Richard Clarkson’s Globe is available in two diameters, 8 and 12 inches, at prices from $210 to $380 depending on size.
A clear 5-inch Glass Hanging Planter with a natural rope handle is $9.99 from Target.
A cylindrical Lantern Vase is 20 centimeters high; 149 SEK from Garden Flow.
With a funnel made of crystal, a Glass Rain Gauge is a “simplified version of the Hellmann’s Ombrometers from 1886” and can accurately measure whether it’s time to water plants; €55 from Manufactum.
Margot’s sleuthing led her to designer Christina Kim’s Los Angeles-based fashion company Dosa, where sand-formed glass paper weights modeled after jelly fish, $90 each, are made at a studio in Oaxaca.
A Garden Water Bell will deliver a slow drip to the roots of houseplants.
A Glass Brick vase also can do double duty as a paperweight to keep magazines from flying away in a breeze.
A Glass Orb Suncatcher has six glass panels and eight open air spaces and is 4 inches high and 4 inches wide.