This part of Skye, wooded and lush, benefits from any warmth lingering in the North Atlantic Drift.

But Mr. Doherty said the real thrill was realizing that each had previously played the piece in an orchestra at home and shared a love of the lush, romantic parts.

Some lush parts of the planet were transformed into lifeless zones.

By the mid-1990's, Rabinowitz had traversed much of the once lush central and southern part of the country, which he found largely denuded by loggers, farmers and hunters.

Stay in the Whispering Palms section, which is close to the house reef and the lushest part of the island (689 7888; www.shangri-la.com; pool villas from £881, including breakfast, bicycles and snorkelling gear).

The eastern end of Jamaica is one of the lushest parts of the Caribbean.

It is one of the lushest parts of cuba.

In this lush part of the world, anything stationary or neglected is overtaken by vegetation.

In this lush if tempest-tossed part of the world, so blessed in some ways, so cursed in others, the berries hit their sweet, scarlet peak in April.

For one thing, they tend to take root in the lushest green parts of parks, often in the shade of large trees.