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Evergreen Trees. Evergreen Shrubs . Evergreen Plants

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Broadleaf Evergreens
The Rhododenderon is a good example of a family containing a large number of broadleaf evergreens, a number of which grow in well established mature forests. Rhododenderons are usually found growing in their preferred, highly acidic soil that, as such, restricts the availability and successful growth of many other plants that rely upon essential nutrients that are much too difficult to obtain there.

Coniferous Evergreens
Taiga or Boreal forests are areas that are too cold to allow the process of organic matter to decay quickly and so encourage a flourishing population of evergreens at the expense of lesser plants that require those not so easily acquired nutrients to be readily available.

The Taiga is located a little south of the Tundra and is a forest situated in the far northern regions of the Earth. The Taiga is made predominantly of coniferous evergreen pines, firs and spruces, and includes a number of deciduous trees, such as, aspens, larches and birches.
Boreal – of or relating to the large areas of forest in the northern temperate zone which has a dominant population of coniferous trees, many of which are pine, fir and spruce.

Temperate Climate Produces Healthy Evergreens
Temperate climates allow evergreens to strengthen their self preservation as the forest floor which is covered in evergreen leaf and needle debris decays easily and quickly. This yields a higher carbon-nitrogen ratio than deciduous leaf material and so maintains a greater soil acidity, whilst lower in the  soil nitrogen component.

Such excelent environmental conditions strongly encourage the growth an increased number of evergreens, which in turn makes it so much more tricky for the deciduous plants to grow in sustainable good health. Where evergreens grow in large numbers, they create their own barrier to cold and draughty conditions as they shelter one another from the extremes of bad weather.

Evergreen Plants Are Solution Solvers
So, overall, there are evergreens that can be grown in a diverse range of stable or variable climates and tolerant to wildly differing soil conditions. It seems evergreens have evolved and adapted to almost any location on Earth.

There is an evergreen for virtually every situation you could think of. They also provide interest year in year out. If you don not like the same color throughout the seasons, some actually change color, quite dramatically from summer to winter and are always visually appealing.

Evergreens are also solution solvers, because, you can always find one to do a specific task, whether it is a dwarf variety to fill in a small gap in the front of a garden border or grown as a row of tall Leylandii acting as a wind break.

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