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| Name | Poinsettia Care Guide and Fun Facts |
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| Video Discription | Join me for lots of fun free flower tips on my Kelly Lehman YouTube channel ➡️ YouTube.com/kellylehman Shop my amazon page for fun florist materials to create your own floral treasures ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epjYRSS Shop my flower arrangements. We Deliver nationwide ! ➡️ https://cranburyfields.com * As an amazon affiliate , I may make a commission on qualifying purchases Poinsettia Care Guide and Fun Facts..... i flower tribe! I created a quick and easy Poinsettia care guide including some poinsettia fun facts and wanted to share it with you. Now you can flex your garden green thumb even in the winter months. These poinsettia facts are a great poinsettia care guide for beginning gardeners as well as master gardeners. No flower says Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas more than the poinsettia. This bright festive plant is a true staple of holiday decorating. Since we see this flower most in the cold winter holiday months, it may surprise you to know that the poinsettia plants are actually native to Central America. They do best in warm temperatures and love sunlight . Care tips...... Make sure your poinsettias are placed near a window that gets a lot of sunlight. Be careful though since some windows are drafter then others. You don’t want your plant to be on top of a cold draft or touching a cold window pane. Poinsettias do well in house day temps of 60-75 Fahrenheit. Keep these and all plants away from direct sources of heat such as stoves or heating ducts. Watering poinsettias can often be confusing. The trick to watering a poinsettia is to make sure you don’t add too much moisture. Over watering is a common mistake and I’ve done this many times in the past. Poinsettias do best when their soil is allowed to dry out a bit in between waterings. If the plant is getting too much water, the leaves may curl, yellow and look dried out. When we see the leaves looking all dried out, our instincts tell us to add more water to hydrate the plant. Adding more water only exacerbates the situation and causes more leaves to drop and eventually the plant with die . Here is the trick to watering your poinsettias. Check the potting soil each day with your finger. If the soil seems very moist, leave it alone. When the soil surface feels dry, water the plant until water begins to flow out the bottom of the pot. Root rot is another issue that can occur in poinsettia plants and most potting plants for that matter. This happens when roots sit in water for an extended period of time and then become damaged and can no longer allow moisture to flow to the leaves and flowers of a plant. To prevent root rot, make sure your plant has an adequate drainage system. This means when you water your plant, the excess water should be able to escape the bottom of the pot so it doesn’t puddle up. Most live plants come in pots that have holes in the bottom for this purpose. The problem with Poinsettia pots is that they often come with decorative foil over the pots which cover the drainage holes. A quick fix for this is to poke holes in the foil at the bottom of your pots to allow the excess water to escape. Another fix for this is to transplant your Poinsettia into another potting vessel like a fancy urn. If this new potting vessel does not have a drainage system, you can add a cup or two of pebbles to the bottom of it. This will allow for a barrier between the roots and the excess water since the water will run down between the cracks in the pebbles. Fun fact..... The bright red flowers we see on poinsettia plants are actually not flowers. They are modified leaves called bracts. They have the job of attracting insects to the tiny yellow flowers in their centers. The small yellow centers are the actual flowers of the plant. Poinsettia not so fun fact... A lot of people have been led to believe that the poinsettia plant is deadly for pets and children, but this is actually an unlikely occurrence. The poinsettia plant’s brightly colored leaves contain a sap that is irritating to the tissues of the mouth and esophagus. If the leaves are ingested, they will often cause nausea and vomiting, but it would take a large amount of the plant’s material to cause poisoning, and most animals and children will not eat such a large enough amount because of the irritating taste and feel from the sap. (source…. Petmd.com) Now you have a whole bunch of poinsettia care tips and fun facts in your gardening tool belt. Hope you enjoy using them throughout the years . #poinsettiacare #Kellylehman #poinsettia More Free Flower “Power Tips” For more flower “power tips” join us at our gardeners blog/vlog at ⬇️ https://cranburyfields.com/gardeners-blog/ Join our Flower Tribe 🌸 https://cranburyfields.com/gardeners-blog/ Shop our flowers 🌸 https://cranburyfields.com/shop/ 🌸https://www.instagram.com/cranburyfields/ 🌸https://www.facebook.com/cranburyfields/ 🌸 https://www.pinterest.com/Cranburyfields/ [jxs9pxgjm8c] |
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