The steps leading to the Thalberg Building, between broad, shrub-bordered lawns, are wide and smooth, and they shone whitely under the midsummer sun, as cool and as stately as the steps to the Capitol in Washington, as I headed for them one morning.
As the only evergreen broad-leaved shrub in this area, it is particularly important for the ecological-environmental stability of native habitats [ 2].
While Highway 8 is a major highway, in some places set off by broad, tree-and-shrub-filled shoulders, it narrows in other places to four lanes from six -- with homes and office buildings on either side.
At three nested scales, the most influential habitat factors were topography (broad-scale >5 m2), shrub "islands" (meso-scale 1−5 m2), and physical substrate characteristics (fine-scale < 1 m2).
Cape flora, a scrubland vegetation found along a narrow strip of the extreme southern coast of South Africa, composed of many species of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs, especially plants of the family Proteaceae (brownish or grayish shrubs often containing oil or resin).
The lodge is now a horticultural library, and the setting features a broad array of trees, shrubs and an English-style garden with everything from wood lilies to Beverly Sills iris.
Maquis, plural maquis, Italian macchia, plural macchie, a scrubland vegetation of the Mediterranean region, composed primarily of leathery, broad-leaved evergreen shrubs or small trees.
Chaparral, vegetation composed of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs, bushes, and small trees usually less than 2.5 m (about 8 feet) tall; together they often form dense thickets.
Chaparral, a shrublike assemblage of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs dominated by chamiso, scrub oak, manzanita, and ceonothus, grows in all but the Alpine zones on both sides of the range.
Mediterranean vegetation, any scrubby, dense vegetation composed of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs, bushes, and small trees usually less than 2.5 m (about 8 feet) tall and growing in regions lying between 30° and 40° north and south latitudes.
Arbutus, genus of about 14 species of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs or trees, of the heath family (Ericaceae), characterized by white or pink flowers in loose, terminal clusters and by many-seeded, fleshy, red or orange berries with a distinctive irregular surface; the leaves are alternate and stalked.
