The tree hugger in me is screaming.

Guess the only modification to a tree that I like to see is either an ever so cool tree house or zip lines. Of course, an old fashion rope swing with a 2 by 12 impressed for a seat or an old tire is acceptable.

Hilarious! lol I love that some of them mimic necklace designs at Tiffany!

Karen

I don't know what they are thinking! Having too much time and money is not a good thing, Nature does a good enough job with trees, and such accessories as Josh and Michael mention are just perfect.
I'd consider a pretty wind-chime hanging from the branches of a small tree acceptable.

I've got to agree with Lilo. $2000 for these "necklaces?" I thought we were in a recession & getting away from egregious expenditures for little or no value.

Here's the part that gets me:

"Surprise that oak, that maple, that honey locust. Drape a gleaming stainless steel necklace around your precious. Fitted on indestructible marine line, finished with marine hardware. Lasts forever."

Um, Okaaaaaay... wouldn't that then girdle and eventually kill the tree? (The tighter ones anyway.) Surprise that oak indeed! With a slow and pointless death. Would that the trees outfitted with these things were like the trees in Wizard of Oz and could slap the stupid out of the fools who parted with their money to buy such things...

The first image in my head was the protruding bellies of
starving little children. How many lives could the money that
someone spent on that mindless adornment for a jewel of
nature that needs nothing extra to improve it's looks save.

Those things are almost obscene, IMO! Why would you hang something like that on a beautiful tree?

Saw this in ad from Garden Design Magazine. It was some time ago, before the economy tanked but even so...(when did they stop putting issue date on every magazine page?). I had torn out page because it had lists of new cultivars and nursery sources. I was lamenting the fact my garden budget has been slashed drastically this year...and the idea of tree jewelry just struck me as outrageous on so many levels, starting with esthetics and ending in cost.

On the other hand, I'll admit I have a rusty iron rabbit and a pair of frogs playing leapfrog among my pots, a bronze 'Green Man' face, bells on gate, etc.,so I guess beauty is in the eye of the gardener...lol josh

And I used to think the tree faces were goofy.

Pooh Bear

Here is a link that might be useful: Tree Faces

That's got to be a joke....and those images photoshopped...
Please tell me it's a joke...

I've been tempted to put faces on my trees, since they all have their own personalities. I do have greenmen and faeries and other heads on some of them. I also have always liked bottle trees, and have many windchimes in tree branches, along with wren houses, and feeders.........but the jewelry. No. Icky.

I stumbled on something else today that would also surprise one's squirrels...

There's a joke here about nuts and squirrels,
but I dare not say it.

Pooh Bear

Shoot! the only tree I ever decorated besides a Christmas
tree was a big ole pine tree by my driveway that I taped up
with florescent tape and a poster that said TREE on it in
great big letters.
That was to keep my husband from backing into it every time
he left the house. I finally had it cut down. The repair
bills on the cars and truck were more expensive than a tree
cutter.

Squirrel Tidies! I dare you to try to put them on even one squirrel!

That squirrel will bite you!!!!!

LOLOLOL. Yes, they will, with they sharp little yellow teeth. I was dumb enough once to stick my hand in a tree hole after I saw a squirrel go into it. I had to peel him off and it hurt like lleh. You don't ever want to pith a squirrel off, because as cute as they are, they can cop an attitude immediately. I noticed they only made Y-fronts for the boy squirrels, anyway. No frilly ones for the gals.

and no tail holes!

(And Suzy, to bring to mind that which Pooh Bear dare not say, there is a reason some people might think that all squirrels are boys...)

Tree necklaces. Well..... it's the Hamptons.

But.. I sure would like to watch the fool that tried to put those panties on a squirrel. They sure are temperamental little rodents. They crack me up how they get so mad when a dog dares to go outside into "their" territory.