Comments on: What You Don’t Know About Poinsettias Won’t Kill You

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:25:10 +0000

It’s not an “international” symbol of Christmas at all. Classic American universalising of something that is peculiar only to themselves. Half the world is in Summer at Christmas so poinsettias wouldn’t be flowering anyway.
This reminds me of Americans asking me how we celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia! Why on earth would we?

By: Uma Shankari

Uma Shankari — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:43:20 +0000

Very impressive. Your passion shows in your writing. Good tips too.

By: xoxoxoBruce

xoxoxoBruce — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:34:57 +0000

I bought a Poinsettia from a hospital benefit holiday craft show in NJ. The seller told me that field grown plants will last, whereas hothouse grown will not. I didn’t believe him, but that plant lived on the kitchen window sill for years, with no special treatment.

By: chthulhu

chthulhu — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:52:53 +0000

The one outside our front door blooms regularly and has to be hacked back every year or it overruns the porch. We’re north of San Diego by thirty miles or so, and that wall faces northeast; the thing must coincidentally get just the right conditions.

By: Tool using Animal

Tool using Animal — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:28:19 +0000

“Ths Flowers aren’t really Flowers” followed immediately by a closeup of the flowers, either Zen or confusing.

By: domy prefabrykowane

domy prefabrykowane — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:24 +0000

It could be very dangerous. I didn’t suppose how.

By: pwscott

pwscott — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:23:51 +0000

I’ve been 50/50 on this plant. Some live others die. You just have to play it by ear. :p

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:27 +0000

I’ve managed to keep a poinsettia alive for a year now, but I had a scare when I left it outside on a night that got too cold. It lost all its leaves and I thought it was dead, but new leaves are sprouting now! Maybe by next year, I’ll get it to bloom with your advice.

By: meg

meg — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:58:33 +0000

I don’t know about reflowering poinsettias, but I do know that they’re the only plants that don’t die instantly when I acquire them. I have one that’s been around for about three years now.