Nestled in a garden rich with live oaks and azaleas, the three-story mansion faces the Beaufort River.
The logging of the oaks and pines removes the food supply on which the area's wild boars depend.
"There they are, " he said, pointing toward nine horses, heads down grazing, in a meadow framed by oaks and sycamore.
At higher elevations, there are various types of oaks and maples to see as hikers head up toward the mountains.
The last of these was Sceptre in 1902 - she was also successful in the Oaks and the St Leger.
Near Mobile Bay in the south, they play among towering oaks and magnolias on a course that looks like Augusta National.
"The scale here is huge, this big empty landscape, with its large oaks and great skies, " Graham says of the Norfolk terrain.
Huge Himalayan vultures wheel eye-level with the road, while tiny tits inhabit a range of vegetation, from conifers and cedars to broadleaved oaks and rhododendrons.
She won both the English and Irish Oaks and was a brave third when taking on the colts in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
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We load back into Arnold's truck and drive to our cover, Lost Trees, where acres of sage and rabbitbrush are broken up by scrub oaks and junipers.
The Epsom Derby is England's premier "Classic" -- a series of races for three-year-olds that also comprises the 1, 000 Guineas, the 2, 000 Guineas, the Oaks and the St.
Since then, flora has sprung up along the embankments, ballast, bridges and walls, creating meadows, wasteland and wooded areas in which a vast range of animals live: there are 220 species of plants and animals, including bees, butterflies, toads, hedgehogs, French oaks and sycamores, and 21 bird species, including the endangered spotted fly catcher.
For a lavish country-club-style atmosphere set in an urban forest of oaks and pines, plus athletic extras like a running track, three large outdoor pools, a 125, 000sqft fitness centre, tennis courts and a climbing wall, check out the 289-room Houstonian Hotel Club and Spa near the Galleria on the west side of town.
Mr. WINTER: Well, I suppose there is a certain daring spirit in a lot of people, and they like to live in a place where they can get up in the morning and see the beautiful Gulf of Mexico and the live oaks and enjoy the balmy climate that exists there most of the time.
The lowest logs were now buried in the earth, as if returning to their birthplace, and from these logs, from the very lowest part of the hut, were growing two new weak branches, which would one day turn into mighty oaks and eat with their roots the dust of this dwelling that had been exhausted by the wind, the rain, and the human race.
It is still too early to forecast success, but on a recent weekday afternoon Marshall Courts and Seven Oaks were quiet and peaceful.
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At one point, he came upon a five-strand run of barbed wire healed into the bodies of live oaks, and he slowed, took a breath, and stopped the car.
His most successful buildings were small ones, the jewel-like pavilions of the exquisite museum in the gardens at Washington's Dumbarton Oaks, and his own, iconic glass house in Connecticut built on the Miesien model, although Mies himself remarked how un-Miesian it was in its details.
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At the start of June comes the Derby, for colts, and the Oaks, for fillies, over a mile and a half.
Once-reluctant homeowners are disposing of beloved sugar maples and oaks, including those damaged in the storms.
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She won 12 of 21 starts including the Kentucky Oaks, Breeders' Cup Distaff and Coaching Club American Oaks.
It says more fire retardant species like oaks, aspens and alders will be placed on the forest boundaries.
The Irish-based trainer of Epsom Derby hope New Approach and Oaks prospect Lush Lashes is the "Marmite man" of his profession - you either love or hate him.
Both, like all reserved seat Derby Tickets, are actually good for two days, and includes Kentucky Oaks Day on Friday, an equally thrilling and equally fancy dress rehearsal for the main event.
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Sea Island was a golden-egg goose, a place where well-heeled families returned generation after generation, where dinner required tuxedos two nights a week, and the grounds were dotted with ceremonial oaks planted by presidents, royals and prime ministers.
Across the sprawling property, lush landscaping abounds and paths lead through gorgeous oaks, pines, olive trees, a stream and a young vineyard.
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These days, pines and blackjack oaks with trunks "as thick as a man's leg" dot the fairways, Harris said.
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Enclosed by manicured lawns and towering oaks, it occupies a grand, ivy-clad country pile that started life as a Georgian shooting lodge.
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