The Romans sent holly branches sporting lustrous evergreen leaves and bright red berries as goodwill tokens during their feast of Saturnalia.
During the next few hours, we know we will absorb rewarding architecture, unusual history lessons and Christmas cheer -- wreaths, evergreen swags, bright flowers and, perhaps, even some Christmas carols.
COLORFUL model engines like those shown here chug up rocky, wooded hillsides and wind among miniature evergreens and bright summer flowers in the Everett Children's Adventure Garden at the New York Botanical Garden.
The grounds are landscaped with evergreens, camellias, hydrangeas and bright yellow senecio bushes.
The temperature was in the 20's, the snow was light and fresh, and a bright midwinter sun filtered through the evergreens.
Known as sausage vines because of their bright purple or pink sausage-shaped, edible fruit, these evergreen climbers sit in a family called the Lardizabalaceae.
The Pennsylvania gold medal winners for 2001 are a large evergreen tree, Ilex opaca, American holly, with bright red berries (if there is a male nearby); Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle, smooth hydrangea, a shrub three to five feet tall with foot-wide clusters of white flowers; and Cornus mas Golden Glory, the Cornelian cherry dogwood, which can grow as a large shrub or a small tree.
When she retired in January at age 81, there were bright new recreation and aquatic centers and soccer fields of evergreen artificial turf.
This is an evergreen plant that produces edible berries and turns bright red in the winter.
As she followed its search for an opening wide enough to ascend through, she saw a bright, grassy area ahead, a gap of light in the evergreens.
