The extensive gardens surrounding the rooms at Villa Waimarie are a tropical delight, with manicured lawns fringed with hedges of yellow and red ixora, and overhung with scarlet flame - of - the - forest bushes. (villawaimarie.com)
The heated pool and whirlpool spa nestle into the surrounding jet - black lava creating a striking contrast to the fields of manicured lawns of the Hualalai Golf Club's 9th hole and the ocean beyond. (luxuryretreats.com)
In addition to the burial pod, Capsula Mundi envisions cemeteries becoming memorial forests, full of life and natural beauty instead of perfectly manicured lawns punctuated by headstones and gravesites that essentially serve to keep those plots from being used for any other purpose than as a (seldom visited) memorial site. (treehugger.com)