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This is the best I have ever seen my Poinsettia. However, I thought they were meant to flower at Christmas.
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12 years ago
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What pretty shots. I don't know when exactly they are meant to flower ... they seemed be always in colour in Brissie.
Water drops always make plants look better/happy. I poinsettiass are originally from Mexico.They are called 'fire flower',' Christmas flower' and 'flower of the Holy Night' It was taken to USA by Dr Joel Poinsett, who was the US minister to Mexico from 1825 to 1830.
There is a lovely Christmas Book called 'The Legend of the Poinsettia' retold by Tomie dePaola. I used to read it to the kids at school. It is a Mexican Christmas legend about taking gifts in a procession for baby Jesus in the church.One little girl had nothing to give so she grabbed an armful of weeds to take much to the villager's disgust, but when she laid them next to Jesus they turned into Poinsettias.
It was a story set in the mountains. It is winter in Mexico at Christmas time. Poinsettias get their coloured leaves in winter, here too, but it is a Christmas flower in the northern hemisphere. Here they somehow force them to colour in greenhouses at Christmas time.
So your pretty plant is doing the right thing. They are coloured leaves surrounding a tiny flower in the middle.
Good heavens, Diane. Thank you soo much for all this info. I had no idea about practically ALL of it. I am not keen on forcing plants to do something for our convenience. I guess I trim and shape though, but that often creates a stronger plant. I am about to transplant this speciment to a larger pot. I will check first to see if they like being root-bound. I had no idea they had a flower as well. A gready plant to have all that much beauty. I managed to get two more succulents or somesuch from my ex-husband yesterday. I put them in rooting compound over-night. They produce an orchid-like flower on long segmented 'branches'. Shall try to identify them. Off to a film and lunch with my friend, Shirley, to start the day, however. "Beneath Hill 60' set in WW1. My sort of film from what I have read. Have to be better than the one I saw on Friday night!!
Hey, I love Poinsettias, we call it the Christmas flower. It only blossoms and the leaver turn red, when the days are shorter... so that is why it is at its beauty peak around Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere. I've had one in the office for over 4 years now and she turned into a beautiful bush.. and she turns red in January...
Is the segmented succulent this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Cactus
They are called "christmas star" around here - they do some horrible things to them: spraying them with golden or silver tinsels (?) and sell them everywhere around Christmas time. Kind of a throw-away Christmas decoration - usually the plants are too weak to live longer than one month.
Martina, nooooooo ... how sad!
Hiker, spot on dear Hiker, spot on! It segments sooo easily that I figure it is fairly common. When my ex returned my camera last night (which I had lent to him to prove something for his body corporate), he gave me an entire pot full of a plant. He has them hanging from branches of trees. So ... some replanting to do today.
I've been visiting your blogs.....wow, your photos are truly amazing. Thanks for sharing your story and photos!
Lucky you! Something likes to chomp down on them, so not as easy to grow -- at least here -- as you might suppose. Mine are coming into bloom now (for the first time!), even though there's no holiday in sight.
And you're right -- the flower is gorgeous.
Chomp? I can see on the basket that Tony gave me that they could be prone to what I can only call 'gangrene'. But I think a bit of TLC and repotting will fix this.
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