Deciduous or evergreen We can generally divide trees and shrubs into two different types of plants, depending upon whether or not they shed all of their foliage during winter.

Eastern hemlock and balsam fir trees laden with snow in North Berwick, Maine. Why don’t hemlocks and firs just drop their leaves in the fall like deciduous trees? It seems easier.

If cold weather is later, leaf drop is later. If it’s an unusually warm winter, some trees and shrubs that are partly deciduous (aka, partially evergreen) keep their leaves through the winter.

But in reality, not all deciduous trees get on board with the stick season program. And we can’t talk about stick season without acknowledging the leaves that simply refuse to fall.

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Deciduous trees only perform photosynthesis during the growing season when their leaves are present. Evergreen trees and shrubs often (but not always) have needles and produce cones.