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evergreenIn botany, a plant such as pine, spruce, or holly, that bears its leaves all year round. Most conifers are evergreen. Plants that shed their leaves in autumn or during a dry season are described as deciduous. Evergreen
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| Evergreen plants, which include nearly all shrubs and ground covers found in Southern California gardens, as well as most of our trees, simply stop growing when they go dormant. To ancient peoples, evergreen plants signified that light and fertility would rebound. The Japanese garden, with its avowed intent of imitating nature, consists of perennial, mostly evergreen plants, which flower briefly, if at all. |
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