(1) Areas of granite and sandstone became colonized by maquis, a low, dense cover of ilex , briars, broom, tree heathers, and laurels.

(2) Then add a single tall stem of red ilex berries for the final touch.

(3) Set beneath the canopy of a large ilex , Campo Baeza's building is composed of two parts: an ethereal superstructure and a horizontal concrete platform.

(4) In 1998 the Council of State agreed to the demolition of the u2018Monster of Vietriu2019, a hotel built by pulverizing an ilex wood and the shoreline on the Amalfi coast.

(5) It is made from the dried, pulverized bodies of a scale insect, Coccus ilicis, which is a parasite on an ilex oak, the kermes oak.

(6) Increasing numbers of walkers are attracted by the network of well-marked footpaths on the Portofino promontory to the west - a wild, rocky place bristling with myrtle, gorse, hawthorn and ilex .

(7) It has cypress and ilex and olive trees to set in picturesque contrast against the bleached earth.

(8) Then later on, with perhaps ten miles behind you, Paco and Pajarito will be there beneath the ilex trees with a couple of large cold boxes.

(9) Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes , you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.

(10) They walked together in Maximus's garden, down white colonnades, around marble ponds fringed with mosaic, through a complex of rose-beds, past ornamental balconies and sculptured ilexes .