I know a lot more about Poinsettias today. I visited the Poinsettia Trials at Linwell Gardens in Beamsville. Wayne Brown kindly toured me through the 160 plus varieties in the trials. Last year they were at Vineland Research Station and open to the public. This year it was open only to the trade - to growers, breeders and buyers, so the public wasn't able to see some remarkable new varieties.
The first is Gold Rush. We in Canada have a clear space between Thanksgiving in October and Christmas. This isn't so in the U.S. There is typically a Poinsettia in the house for Thanksgiving. That's why an orange colour would be perfect for the American holiday display. Immediately behind it is a startling chartreuse colour, and behind that the pretty spring-looking pink blooms that we see in the next picture.
There are so many different bract shapes - there are the up-pointing ones and the more downward cascading ones. The shapes vary too - there are hearts, oak leaves and holly bracts/leaves.
This 'white room' is where the trials were last week. Everything was moved to conserve heat as they ship the poinsettias out during the last few weeks of this big season - Poinsettias are the largest crop of pot plants in North America.
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