We looked around, blinking, at a temple of riotous decay, evergreen, shade-blue.
Cardamom is one of the most expensive spices in the world and thrives under 40%to50%0% evergreen shade on moist tropical slopes 600 to 1500 m in elevation (Reyes 2005).
Meanwhile shaded plants inhabiting evergreen broadleaved forests tend to allocate more growth to leaves, displaying larger, thinner leaves which take up more horizontal area for light capture (Damascos 1996; Promis et al. 2008).
A mere three acres of mostly level land, surrounded by a white picket fence, it is easily walkable, shaded by towering evergreens and ornamental shrubbery.
To the left of the lawn, a small path -- "the shortest hike in the national parks system," one guide said -- leads to the rock garden, its moss, ferns and craggy mountain laurels shaded by tall evergreens.
We produced our passports for a guard at a well-fortified gate, went up a hill on a winding drive shaded by birch and evergreens and got out under a portico.
R. delavayi and R. irroratum are mainly distributed in evergreen broad-leaved forests margins, whereas R. yunnanense grow in mixed forests on shaded slopes.
This was a good a time as any, I decided, to head back to the hushed, evergreen-shaded entrance to a trail I'd passed off the Bridle Path — and this time do some ruminative snowshoeing.
In the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Chastagner said, previously shaded understory plants like salal and huckleberry celebrated their Christmas good fortune by "going crazy," and evergreens that made it through the tangle developed stunted lower branches.
For shaded areas, the Sweet Box, Sarcococca confusa is a great choice in USDA zones 7 to 9. It is a broadleaf evergreen that produces sweet-smelling flowers from January through March that transform into beautiful black shiny berries that attract birds.
