We associate poinsettias with Christmas. I used to get my own poinsettia on my desk as a gift at work but there are too many of us for that now. I would bring it home and often I could keep it around for a month or two before it got too leggy and I'd have to pitch it. Now I associate poinsettias with pre-Christmas visits to Mexico. What I didn't know was that some American guy named Poinsett brought them back to the United States from Mexico in the 1820's and we've been buying them at Walmart ever since. I wonder what they call them in Mexico? I like to see the winter poinsettia show at the conservatory in Como Park and after I've been there I wonder why I don't get over there more often. In some of the garden areas they crank up the heat to tropical proportions and the sunlight coming through the Victorian glass dome is a welcome relief for any light deprived northerner.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Poinsettia Show
We associate poinsettias with Christmas. I used to get my own poinsettia on my desk as a gift at work but there are too many of us for that now. I would bring it home and often I could keep it around for a month or two before it got too leggy and I'd have to pitch it. Now I associate poinsettias with pre-Christmas visits to Mexico. What I didn't know was that some American guy named Poinsett brought them back to the United States from Mexico in the 1820's and we've been buying them at Walmart ever since. I wonder what they call them in Mexico? I like to see the winter poinsettia show at the conservatory in Como Park and after I've been there I wonder why I don't get over there more often. In some of the garden areas they crank up the heat to tropical proportions and the sunlight coming through the Victorian glass dome is a welcome relief for any light deprived northerner.
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