gren patch / patch of green: an area of land that is lush with greenery/green foliage/vegetation

green
noun

a small area of grassland, esp. in the centre of a village
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Online edition of Daily News - Features
... Made up of a dozen or more trees this little patch serves as a resting place for hundreds ... Hey guys there's a green patch below, let's go down and rest ...
www.dailynews.lk/2002/06/25/fea05.html

Environment Management at RCF
... Gradually, they were cared to grow into trees for enfolding the jungle made up of steel and concrete ... soil laced with trees has turned into green patch, where once were ...
www.rcf.nic.in/envi.htm


Unasylva - Vol. 1, No. 1 - The Disappearance of the Tropical Forests of Africa
By ANDRÉ MARIE A. AUBRÉVILLE. Conservator of Waters and Forests of France. A GLANCE at a map showing the distribution of vegetation in Africa focuses attention on a large patch of green centered in the equatorial zone. ... This enormous forest area would appear to present ...
www.fao.org/docrep/x5339e/x5339e04.htm
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An Explosion of Green - 95.04
Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online ... an oak forest--a mature oak forest ... Sterling Forest.) But like so much of the East, it slowly grew back. Now it is a 17,500-acre patch of green ...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/environ/green.htm
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The Moss Forest: A World in Miniature - An All Creatures Photo Gallery - creation, earth, environment, ecology, plants,
... we will look at a forest within a forest, a forest so small that we ... more than a patch of green on the ground. It is a forest in miniature ...
www.all-creatures.org/pics/moss.html


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diffusa macchia verde: great green patch / great patch of green

New York State Maps / Hiking / Nature - Hope Farm Press and Bookshop
... Adirondacks will reshape forever the understanding of this great green patch. A marvel of detail and sweep, rigor and ...
www.hopefarm.com/out_OA.htm

Welcome in Haguenau, Alsace, France
... which fans out all around the city. This great patch of green, a sanctuary for calm and beauty in the northern plain ...
www.visit-alsace.com/haguenau

or even \"extensive\"

Vacation in Hong Kong China with Asian Vacations, Inc.
... is dominated by Victoria Park, a surprisingly extensive patch of green grass by Hong Kong\'s standards, which contains ...
www.vacationsinchina.com/Hong_Kong_attractions.html

ANOTHER suggestion is \"splash of green\"

More Power to Gatekeepers of Green Peace
... the gates of Chaoyang Park, the huge splash of green amid the concrete grey highrises and choked ... spot between the International Friendship Forest (actually more of a copse) and ...
www.buzzle.com/editorials/text8-8-2003-44028.asp