slo’s FRIDAY 12/19 poll - Poinsettias

[evilmommie]

I love LIVE poinsettias. I have somewhat of an obsession with them during the holidays. I always have several in my front garden for the Christmas season.

 

[Dan Murphy]

My late brother used to send us a poinsettia plant each year. None since he passed a couple years ago. Marie always has several red artificial ones here and there in the house and front porch each year, including this year. Always brighten the place up.

 

[tvguy]

Have had various poinsettias in the past, but just never had luck with them. They are VERY sensitive tropical plants likely grown in perfect greenhouse conditions and never last more than a few weeks once you bring them home.

LOL. That has never been my experience. My last employer had a bunch in the lobby. After Christmas they got put in a dark closet, the receptionist would water them, and the next Christmas pull them out again. You could not kill them.

 

[clappyclaps]

I don't have any poinsettias, live or fake. Not sure why really as I love plants and never need an excuse to buy some, especially if they're christmassy.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

When we moved into our house some 30+ years ago, there was a large poinsettia bush near the front door. It was pretty messy, but I liked it and, after about 5 years, my husband decided it was getting too big, and messy, so he chopped it down. It took about 4 years of dedicated chopping and digging up roots before the silly thing was dead.

This year I got a small table centerpiece with a potted poinsettia in it after an event. We're trying to decided if we're going to plant it.

 

[Mle8308]

I love them! Buy at least one real red one each year. When I lived in FL I had a huge poinsettia bush next to my garage. It was planted by the former owners and it was beautiful! Never did anything to it, it just grew on it's own (unfortunately, as much as I wish I did, I do not have a green thumb).

 

[_19disnA]

Probably depends on the climate where you live since it is a tropical plant. In the northern part of the country that gets cold weather, you have to be really careful just carrying the plant from a store to your car so it isn't dead by the time you get home.

 

[Sweettears]

Have had various poinsettias in the past, but just never had luck with them. They are VERY sensitive tropical plants likely grown in perfect greenhouse conditions and never last more than a few weeks once you bring them home.

I used to own a greenhouse. The plants are very sensitive to drafts and overwatering. It’s a tough balance to keep them watered but not too much. Drafty conditions cause the leaves to drop. Keeping on the dry side is best. They’re native to Mexico so keep that climate in mind.

 

[georgina]

I have a fake one (red of course!) I put in our front hallway. i buy a real one to donate to the church decorating committee every year.

 

[E&Cmom]

I just bought a home a small red one today as it was my free birthday month gift at a local garden center. We have cats but they have never bothered with them but I still keep it on the table or counter where they never go. They are both senior cats and not jumpers climbers. One lives under our Christmas tree these days.

 

[marthachick]

At my retirement party yesterday, they had 6 beautiful poinsettias as centerpieces for some of the tables. They told me to take them but I only brought 1 home. It was an orangish color. I’ve never seen one that color. I shared the rest of them.

 

[tazdev3225]

i never get them as I have cats. My youngest right now loves to attack my Aloe so I know he would go after a Poinsettia. Yeras ago I decided to make a centerpiece in a pretty basket. This is what I wound up with instead


Decided after she had so much fun and ended up destroying the fake ones that I will skip them.

 

[ncc1701]

We have 4 small poinsettas. Two are white and the other two are red. The white ones are used as centerpieces on the dinning room table. The tablecloth is a dark red.
The red ones are on a table a front window with a ceramic Christmas tree from the 1970s that belonged to my Grandparents. The ones on the dining room are always white or pink . The ones at the front window can be red , spotted or pink.

 

[VandVsmama]

Have indoor cats. No poinsettias.

 

[amcnj]

For a while I was buying some real plants each year. But I stopped several years ago and now just have ones that are given as a gift. So far this year I haven’t received any, but still have one from a previous year that is growing, though no evidence it will turn red yet. I have had ones that turned red each year without any effort on my part, aside from watering.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Okay. So Publix had buy one get one free poinsettia. But then I realized now that we live in Florida, it could be a lifetime commitment because it could conceivably live forever, and I was just not ready for that kind of relationship.

 

[Mle8308]

Okay. So Publix had buy one get one free poinsettia. But then I realized now that we live in Florida, it could be a lifetime commitment because it could conceivably live forever, and I was just not ready for that kind of relationship.

Plant them in your yard after the season! I mentioned before, the previous owners of the house I lived in when I was in FL did and it grew into a beautiful bush - I never had to do anything to it and it was fine. And I am horrible with plants!