Impress folks at Christmas dinner this year when you share facts about poinsettias. Discover the past and present of this ...

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 ...

The identity of this species – the world’s only annual orchid – baffled me for years when it popped out of the mulch surrounding a palm tree ... wild poinsettia bears bracts ranging from bright-red or ...

Around the same time, a mistletoe growing on the trunk of a Christmas tree was sent to the botanist Sir Joseph Banks, whose collections are held at the Museum. Combining two festive plants, it is ...

You can even get symptoms from standing under a manchineel tree during a rainstorm. Along with the poinsettia ... used that name for a different toxic plant that crazed horses.

Deciduous fruit trees will have stopped growing by now ... time of year if you want it to bloom as advertised. Like poinsettia, these plants need a long period of darkness (or reduced hours ...

Start them from seed or from basal cuttings taken from mother plants, or transplant container-grown artichoke seedlings into ...

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The Orange County 4-H Program is pre-selling red, white and pink poinsettias in various sizes as well as poinsettia/mum bowls ...

Fruit trees: Now is a good time to plant citrus of all varieties ... Ornamentals: If you have a poinsettia from last year, place it in absolute darkness each evening, from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m ...