The architecture hides among big, bushy foliage, a nod to Arthur Phillip, the British naval officer and founder of Sydney, being watched by the Indigenous people of the land from behind trees as he arrived.
Second, when the Holiday Inn clerk asks what brings you to town, tell him you're kicking off a big fall foliage road trip: all 105 miles of Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, then all 469 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and North Carolina.
See those big ball-shaped foliage things on the lawn?
The Bournemouth-Poole stretch is Audi TT territory, neat cliffs, plentiful foliage, big apartment blocks.
Every street, every surface, is smothered with foliage, big strong trees strong enough to twist down Nelson's Column.
They are lakeside views, big on overhanging foliage (very delicately rendered) and with twilight on the way.
Both are packed with plants that have excellent foliage: big clumps of Valeriana officinalis, thalictrum, gorgeous freckled hellebores, Iris Gerald Derbyy', its sword leaves streaked with purple.
Bold foliage and big, glossy leaves create a subtropical quality, and because many of these plants are evergreen, the garden can feel alive for most of the year.
For eight hours a day, construction workers blast buildings with water, cut grass and shovel dirt and foliage into big black plastic bags — which, with nowhere to go, dot Naraha's landscape like funeral mounds.
