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...Holm oak (Quercus ilex): like yew, this can grow to 25m. Osmanthus: slow-growing, dark foliage and scented white flowers in late spring....
...The hard light of the Florentine summer is filtered by holm oaks and stone pines as numerous statues cast dark shadows across the terraces and parterres of clipped box....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek Photographs: Nick Reid; James Warwick/Getty Images...
...When we arrived in Dover, a bough of holm oak flew from the yardarm, which harks back to the Men of Kent’s attempts to repel William the Conqueror....
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