Heather Brown!!!
Yesterday I sent my most recent posting to Heather to put up on the OGC site. But she didn't do it right away…sending a photograph for me to look at instead.
And what a lovely photo! Heather sent a shot she had taken of her Poinsettia which she has managed to get through not one, but two Christmas seasons, and it looks fabulous!
Why the great success? I know patience is a crucial element, but there is more… Hope you will give instructions as to how you did it, Heather, and it will be posted for the others who have failed at keeping this Christmas plant looking good year after year.
Heather, I tip my hat to you. You are a much better Poinsettia grower than I! I have to tell you, however, that on my walk on garbage day this week, I went by a green bin, and what was hanging out from the unlatched top, but a very sad-looking, dead Poinsettia! Just like mine, when I tried to grow them. So I am not alone….. This one was stretched from looking for light, and had green and wilted, almost crispy, bracts. No perky foliage or beautiful red bracts like the ones at Heather's patio door. I hope all of these failures, all of the once-beautiful but demanding plants which have met their makers, will all find a place in Poinsettia heaven, and come back to earth in Heather's shopping cart!!!
They deserve it, and Heather deserves a gold star!
Heather Brown’s Poinsettia, blooming again for a second Christmas.