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Canary Island Date Palms grow nicely in places like Charleston, SC and US southeastern coastal regions.
Bougainvillea are not palms, but are sub-tropical. In places like Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA it grows on trees mixed with Spanish Moss. Is really beautiful to see.
Those palms in Charelston are my favourite palms, by the way - I don't like coconut palms at all.
I don't think the palms on the S. Coast of England look out of place either. It is very green there in winter anyway. Reminds me of a place like Eureka, CA in winter. They don't look out of place there either. Do you ever watch Top Gear? The other show I saw Jeremy Clarkson drove, on June 21st, from Lands End to the easternmost point of England. Lands End looked very scenic. I also love the roads they drive on in N. England with hedgerows and green rolling hills. I don't get it when Brits complain about the countryside. Always looks really beautiful to me. I think you guys are lucky.
Ah yes, the countryside. Many country lanes do have litter on the verges, especially near cities. I've not noticed it myself though, except near the big cities where there's more traffic thus more people throwing litter out their window.
I think the palms make much of New Zealand look substantially warmer than it actually is. Actually, even without the palms large areas of New Zealand would still look quite impressively tropical in my opinion. It's kind of odd. Interesting, though.
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Lands End looked very scenic. I also love the roads they drive on in N. England with hedgerows and green rolling hills. I don't get it when Brits complain about the countryside. Always looks really beautiful to me. I think you guys are lucky.
One of the few things I've ever agreed with tom77falcons on
I've searched all over the world with Google Earth and I have found nothing that resembles the British countryside, and I'm not talking about the human-made parts of it. Even the landscape, landforms and rolling hills etc. are completely unique to that island. Even immediately across the Channel in Brittany in France the landscape is much, much flatter with significantly more trees. I would love to live there someday. It's a shame it will probably never happen.
I think the palms make much of New Zealand look substantially warmer than it actually is. Actually, even without the palms large areas of New Zealand would still look quite impressively tropical in my opinion. It's kind of odd. Interesting, though.
I don't think NZ has any palms that make it look like a warm climate, as it really only has palms that can handle cool summers.
One of the few things I've ever agreed with tom77falcons on
I've searched all over the world with Google Earth and I have found nothing that resembles the British countryside, and I'm not talking about the human-made parts of it. Even the landscape, landforms and rolling hills etc. are completely unique to that island. Even immediately across the Channel in Brittany in France the landscape is much, much flatter with significantly more trees. I would love to live there someday. It's a shame it will probably never happen.
London, Surrey, Berkshire, northern Hampshire and Essex are all very flat and heavily forested, especially Surrey and Berkshire.
Loads of pics that feature in the photo thread look like they could've been taken in SE England.
The most English-looking countryside in the US is found in Kentucky, near Lexington.
Believe me, you won't see coconut Palms anywhere in northern Europe. Maybe, maybe, in some parts of southern Italy and Spain.
Nope not even there, closest would be Malta which is even pushing it.
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