In its little rear garden, bright orange bushes were just starting to bud.
So American yards were soon aflame with salmon, pink and orange bushes and some, poor things, were pruned to multicolored hedges.
The falling and blowing snow stole color right out of the air, turning a cardinal in a mock-orange bush into an indistinct rose-gray blob.
On one side of the church steps is a mock-orange bush, and on the other side is a Southern dooryard plant called Spanish bayonet, a kind of yucca.
Of a January storm, he writes, "The falling and blowing snow stole color right out of the air, turning a cardinal in a mock-orange bush into an indistinct rose-gray blob".
There are lemon trees; a Mexican orange; a bush called a wavyleaf silktassel, with drooping flowers, that belongs in an Art Nouveau painting; and another whose leaves smell of caramel in the fall.
We ate on the terrace of the vineyard restaurant, surrounded by the native flowers and trees that Mr. Horgan and his wife, Tricia, keen environmentalists, have planted -- yellow hibberta and perky little pink and white diosma, as well as grevillea, an orange-flowered bush, with the violet-flowered vine Hardenbergia comptoniana, or wild wisteria, intertwined with it.
I awoke to the orange-breasted bush shrike, called the Beethoven bird because its tune sounds like the Fifth Symphony.
Canet commits one major error: the little clearing in the forest that Alex and Margot have been visiting since they were children can be entered only between parallel columns of gorgeous pink-orange rhododendron bushes, a Disney touch that we see twice and that converts sentiment into a mawkish sanctification of eternal love.
In Midland, a naturalist took me on a tour of the immediate surrounds, where we saw sandhill cranes wading in water treatment ponds, "pocket forests" where tree-climing grey foxes live, where I could imagine the October Monarch migrations coloring every drab and dusty bush orange.
PORTUGUES, P.R. — It is his retirement refuge, a tiny house in the Central Mountain Chain, surrounded by banana and orange trees, coffee bushes and the melody of coquí frogs.
