Nica's Blog

I would like to encourage people who do not plan to keep a poinsettia as a year around houseplant to simple not get poinsettias. About now great piles of the pretty flowering perennials are being tossed into compost piles and landfills. Go into some department stores and high-rise lobbies and you'll see great towers of the red, pink, and white petals (which are actually leaves) in cheesy foiled pots. These are plants doomed to die. The plants are perennials, but it's cheaper to just throw them away than to keep them alive for next year. It's a huge waste, and it has nothing to do with Christmas.

Once I get everyone to stop using poinsettias for holiday decor, I'm going to start making the Christmas tree a ritual of the past.