K wrote:
Charlie Pridham writes
(snip)
Sadly there is no scenario where being evergreen in a cold exposed
location is an advantage (apart from to gardeners!)

Though it's a strategy which works for a lot of conifers.

Indeed - they will grow in extreme conditions where little else does. And
considering conifers have been around for an extraordinary long time, one
wonders why a climbing conifer has never evolved (would it be identifiable
from fossil records anyway?).

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Jeff
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