There, in a raised garden overlooking the drive, and sheltered by umbrella pines, the servants were waiting to serve food at little tables scattered around haphazardly.

Boetcher brought in rare and foreign plants to help beautify the cemetery, including umbrella pines and Colorado blue spruce.

The native umbrella pines share the landscape with acacia, eucalyptus, and palm trees imported by British gardeners.

Albert Camus gazed upon the persimmon trees and umbrella pines there as he wrote "The Plague."

It was enclosed by a high brick wall and shaded by tall umbrella pines.

Fifty yards inland the juniper bushes began, then came the umbrella pines, a band of dark green, mushroom-topped trees forming a small elevated plateau.

At the Niavaran Palace, we plunged through the gateway and pulled up before a toy house under floodlit umbrella pines.

Green swards of hillsides opened in parklands, dotted with occasional sheep and shaded by umbrella pines.

The surrounding landscape of vineyards and umbrella pines lay steeped in shadows and gloom.

To the south, Palombaggia - an ellipse of sand backed by umbrella pines - is much busier despite the long, potholed access road.