Today we will look at one category of decorative plants: evergreens.
Evergreens are, as their name implies, colorful throughout the year, not succumbing to frost or losing their leaves at every little seasonal whim. Generally, however, as may also be divined from their name, they are relentlessly monochromatic. These traits are attractive to a subset of gardeners who do not feel the need to fritter their time away every year creating new and vastly expensive plans for redecorating their yards. Once in place, evergreens require only regular trimming and occasional feeding; with these simple actions, your yard will be aggressively green and prickly (and scented, depending on your varieties) regardless of the weather.
The Modern Garden has several varieties of evergreen available to the deserving public – be sure to note our Japanese Yew, which attracts deadly poisonous spiders which take up residence at your front door and will rid you of unwanted guests, as well as the spruce, which emits an odor not completely disagreeable to humans, but is guaranteed to keep all those pesky butterflies at a safe distance. Check them out on pages 489 through 546.
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