Plants fight for space: ponga (silver tree fern), cabbage trees, manuka (tea tree), and pohutukawa (a coastal evergreen tree), which cling to the land at the sea's edge.

BBC: All at sea in New Zealand

Deeply moved by the beauty of the stars shining between the branches of a fir tree, he brought home an evergreen tree and decorated it with candles to share the image with his children.

FORBES: Everything You Wanted to Know About Christmas (but were afraid to Google)

Clothed in sheepskin throws with bells around their waists and sporting distinctive hats embellished with sprigs of evergreen, two to more than thirty ringers swagger in groups behind a guide carrying a small evergreen tree.

UNESCO: Culture

Robinson's plot is in section 6 on the Queens side of the graveyard, on Jackie Robinson Way near Cypress Road, across from a large stone mausoleum near a low black fence, tall evergreen tree and hedge row.

WSJ: A guide to exploring Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn

As I was walking into work this morning, I saw an evergreen that's probably got a tree trunk two or three feet in diameter that was completely on its side.

NPR: Fires in Texas, Fierce Storms in Midwest

At breakfast one morning, it was not the passing trolleys outside that drew my attention but the scene opposite: a tiny courtyard, white-walled and gravel-floored, with the elegant skeleton of a single bare tree emerging from asymmetrical waves of evergreen hedges.

CNN: Flanders: Europe's best-kept design secret

When it comes to flourishing evergreen memories, this week's escape is at the top of the tree.

BBC: Daily deal: Four night stay in Montana