Patricia Holbrook wants to be like the evergreen — rooted in God’s promises, fruitful in every season, standing firm until the day he calls me home.

If you’re looking for a variety of slow-growing shrubs in your shade garden, consider adding some deciduous shrubs ... Dwarf varieties of evergreen trees originate in various ways: crossbreeding ...

But there is another category of tree called broadleaf evergreen, with leaves that resemble the flat, lobed foliage on deciduous trees. The big difference is that broadleaf evergreens hold onto ...

The evergreen family extends beyond conifers and includes any tree that keeps its green foliage, as opposed to a deciduous tree ... are shorter-lived than most trees," she adds.

Most evergreen shrubs do not need thinning or formative pruning. However all shrubs benefit from shortening any excessively long shoots and cutting out weak or damaged growth. Deciduous shrubs are ...

deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the trees and other plant and non-plant species, as well as ecosystem processes and conservation.