Maine,in the nation's northeast, is "The Pine Tree State" because it is covered in evergreen woods.
VOA: special.2009.08.09
Deeply moved by the beauty of the stars shining between the branches of a fir tree, he brought home an evergreentree and decorated it with candles to share the image with his children.
Plants fight for space: ponga (silver tree fern), cabbage trees, manuka (tea tree), and pohutukawa (a coastal evergreentree), which cling to the land at the sea's edge.
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.