| I recall the poinsettia being the most labour intensive, involving complicated light control and messing about with black polythene bags. |
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| Cut off any colored bracts and prune the poinsettia to about 5 to 7 inches. |
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| Cyclamen Cyclamen are subtler and more elegant than poinsettia with delicate, silky, shy flowers and the dappled heart-shaped leaves. |
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| The flowers are usually identified as poinsettia, which in the Malagasy language is Madagasikara, the local name for Madagascar. |
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| A daytime temp of around 65 degrees and nights around 60 degrees will provide perfect conditions for your poinsettia. |
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| Use the poinsettia pot as your centerpiece and serve that delicious hot breakfast in the square deep bakeware dishes. |
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| If you saved a poinsettia from last year's holidays, October's the time to start coaxing it back into bloom. |
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| If the poinsettia is already producing pollen, a portion of its useful display life has already passed and the bracts will begin to fade. |
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| Decorative plants such as holly, mistletoe and poinsettia are toxic to pets. |
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| While poinsettia is the most popular, a Christmas cactus in full bloom is a great gift and easy to care for once the flowers have faded. |
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| In addition, it has also been detected in poinsettia during market and import inspections. |
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| Also known as milkweed and spurge, Euphorbia belongs to an incredibly varied genus that contains over 2,000 species including the Christmas favourite, poinsettia. |
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| The poinsettia plant was once thought to be poisonous but in fact it is no longer classified as severely toxic. |
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| Westcan Greenhouses of Langley, B. C. has decided to stop conducting annual spring geranium and fall poinsettia trials. |
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| Christmas trees are another essential part of the season, along with poinsettia plants. |
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| Westcan has been holding their poinsettia open house for the last 15 years and its spring trials open house for 13 years. |
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| However, things went sour quickly at her poinsettia Place apartment. |
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| No phytotoxicity has been observed at the rates recommended on this label on chrysanthemum, gerbera, ageratum, dahlia, marigold, salvia, verbena, zinnia, baby's breath, petunia, Easter lily, or poinsettia. |
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| You can try to keep your poinsettia until next Christmas so it can rebloom, but you will have to look at an ugly plant all year and you'll still fail, most likely. |
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| Just as for moth orchids, plant breeders in the 1960s worked hard to make the poinsettia more colourful, compact and floriferous, making it the blockbuster Christmas plant it is today. |
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| It was almost Christmas and a poinsettia hunched in the corner of the room, making her think about the black dirt in the pot, what was in the dirt. |
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| But when I was through I ate all the petals off my poinsettia. |
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| Raymond Loewy, the industrial designer, sent his office boy over to the Public Library recently, with instructions to borrow some prints of holly and poinsettia. |
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| Flowers all year round but should be put in a specific position in store in September and October in order to distinguish it from the traditional poinsettia. |
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| Tomato, cucumber and peppers are labelled vegetable crops, with the product also deemed suitable for a wide range of ornamentals, including poinsettia, hydrangea, African daisy, phlox, bee balm and flowering dogwood. |
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| The international trade in poinsettia is considered to have been a major means of dissemination within the EPPO region of the B biotype of B. tabaci. |
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| In China, a bacterial leaf spot disease was initially observed on poinsettia in the Xiaoshan district of Zhejiang Province, which is one of the major poinsettia-growing regions. |
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| Whiteflies have had their turn at the top as well, especially in certain crops such as poinsettia and during the gaps between the availability of effective pesticides to control them. |
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| We often hear about flowers like Christmas rose, holly, ivy, poinsettia and mistletoe as Christmas flowers because during the winter most of their flowers are in full bloom. |
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