The word 'lush' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as an adjective to describe something that is rich, abundant, or indulgent, for example: "The garden was a lush oasis of greenery."
GRAN CANARIA If wrapping up warm for wintry romance isn't your thing, escape for a week in the Canary islands, where winter temperatures are usually around 20C. Gran Canaria, with its rolling sand dunes and lush palm plantations, has a stark beauty and, perhaps more importantly, a smattering of slick spa hotels.
Miami Vice (2006) Foxx reunited with Mann for a lush big-screen treatment of the 80s TV show about two roguish cops patrolling the art-deco seafront.
There is not a great deal to see in Ravello, apart from its two villas - the ruined Rufulo, which has open-air concerts in the evenings, and the Cimbrone with its lush gardens overlooking the sea - but it is pleasant just to ramble through the cobbled lanes or linger over a drink in a café on the main square.
The caffeteria has huge glass windows overlooking a lush garden, the high ceiling hanging with flamboyant chandeliers.
Hire a car, buy a map and head for the Orotava wine valley in the island's lush north, to discover the guachinches (gwa-CHEEN-chays).
The term "rustic luxury" could have been created for Uxua: nine wooden casas set among lush gardens in the village of Trancoso.
He'd built on a concrete slab, installed double-glazing, established a wide, lush lawn and removed 27 dangerously combustible native trees from the immediate area.
Air France (0845 0845 111; airfrance.co.uk) flies to Mauritius from Heathrow from £582 Petite Anse (petiteanse.com) has a real hideaway feel: 11 cottage-style rooms tucked away in the north of the island, with lush gardens surrounding the pool and lodge.
OS Map: Explorer 350 – Edinburgh: Musselburgh & Queensferry The lush woodlands of the Hermitage inspired Wordsworth, Mendelssohn and Turner to rapture.
It's tiny, and well-known for its amazing flora and fauna – more than half of the country is covered in lush forest and there are more than 60 national parks and reserves.
At Kendal - a more conventional hostel, albeit one in a lush Georgian townhouse with narey a floor that didn't slope at some endearingly drunken angle - we had our own room and were given a hearty breakfast the next morning.
