Native to Mexico, poinsettia plants are typically large, gangly shrubs in the wild. Popularized as holiday plant in the '50s with modernized breeding, no holiday season seems complete without a ...

For your poinsettia to grow those beautiful, vibrant bracts and delicate blooms in time for next Christmas, the plant requires a period of darkness. 'To get the plant to bloom again, you need to ...

Performed by Dr. Xunzhong Zhang of Virginia Tech, the trials on poinsettias show beneficial changes to plant health, color, ...

A Poinsettia was given as a gift to their previous secretary, Robin R. Lennox before she had passed from Covid and the plant ...

Soon, however, he began to grow potted poinsettia plants exclusively. In the 1990s, Paul Ecke’s son would expand the company’s operation to Guatemala where the lion’s share of its ...

Like Christmas trees, Santa and reindeer, the poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holiday season in the US and across Europe. But now, nearly 200 years after the plant with the ...

Your guests will be able to see across the table as they visit over dinner, enjoying the holiday ambience created by these beautiful plants. Dress up each place setting with a cut poinsettia bloom.

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