Evergreens don’t lose their leaves.

It is an old misconception, older enough for me to be for warned by my amenity horticulture lecturer, that people think by choosing evergreen you will not have to clean up fallen leaves. The logic is easy to see; if the plant is evergreen it has leaves all the time so they don’t fall off. The error of this will quickly become painfully apparent the first time they weed under a holly bush! While evergreen don’t shed all their leaves on one go: they do still shed them, as can be seen if you look under any established evergreen tree or bush and what is more they tend to take longer to rot down than leaves of deciduous plants.