It is a maze of ornamental hedges and sweet-smelling orange trees, where leaf-carpeted paths meander through the pines.
Two hours east of Seville, the town is a maze of narrow streets lined by orange trees and whitewashed houses.
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Wesley Brumback rhapsodizes about planting 350 bare-root orange trees in two days, seeing bald eagles dive for fish in the grove's reservoirs and watching trailers roll out with his fruit.
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He drummed up private sector financial support to buy orange trees and in 2002 he launched the Winterveldt Citrus Project, a community initiative which enables small holders to make a living and become self-sufficient by training them how to work the land.
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The actual venue for the news conference was no less strange - a cross between a tent and a greenhouse, perhaps like an abandoned aviary - with greenery draped around the white trellis work, miniature orange trees in tubs and two large trees growing up between the TV cameras.
Though bright-red Japanese maples are most recognisable, many other showy trees burst into colour, like the deep golden ginkgo and burnt-orange zelkova trees.
Bamboo groves sway in the breeze, and persimmons hang bright orange on the trees.
It was a good deal less welcoming now, as a silhouette against a gunmetal sky, but there was something high in the hills that beckoned him: an orange glow between the trees.
From the Colosseum, cutting across the ancient racecourse Circus Maximus, it is a wonderful stroll up the Aventino, one of Rome's seven hills, home to a dreamily upmarket residential district with deep-green trees shading its orange-ochre buildings.
As the year came to a close, persimmons appeared in the hills surrounding town and trees turned to rusty orange.
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And in 2002, a sinkhole about 150 feet across and 60 feet deep swallowed oak trees, sidewalk and park benches near an apartment complex in western Orange County, Fla.
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