Today's Flowers: Poinsettia


My daughter's high school's agricultural academy sold poinsettias to raise money for its program.  They were beautiful, healthy plants, and I was happy to buy three.  The girls running the show were all business, but they did a great job wrapping the flowers and protecting them from the cold.

Today's Flowers

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  1. Oh, they are beautiful!! A good thing for all of you!! Enjoy the beauty!!

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  2. Lovely. The white ones have always been my favourite.

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  3. how fun to see white poinsettias...

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  4. they are beautiful...and poisonous as well...the church i grew up in used to put them out over the holidays in rememberance....

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  5. They look lovely Sandy.

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  6. They bloom covering some hillsides in Kona this time of year. A diplomat Poinset (sp?) brought them from Mexico to USA attn....


    ALOHA to YOU
    from Honolulu
    Comfort Spiral
    =^..^= <3

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  7. A worthy project, and a wonderful Mom you are!
    I love the white poinsettias, too. They are beautiful. I hope that your daughter's class was able to raise exactly what was needed to meet its goal.

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  8. The Poinsettia got its name from the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Joel Robert Poinsett. He found the plant in Mexico and introduced it to the United States in 1825.

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  9. White Poinsettias are quiet seldom ! At least here in Belgium.

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  10. The girls had to be proud that you took three plants, Sandy. A first for me seeing White Poinsettias! Cool!

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  11. Flowers are always beautiful, more so the pure whites. The youngsters are on their way into the rudiments of business. It's good to give all the support! Nicely Sandy!

    Hank

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  12. They are a nice decoration for Christmas. It is good that some org can benefit from your purchase. Be sure your doggies don't eat them.

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  13. very beautiful, sandy!
    love the sepia choice.
    wish you a great rest of your weekend and a great week ahead~
    xo

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  14. Very nice, I love poinsettias also. Especially when we pick them up I wander about and check them out.

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  15. I love white poinsettias!

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  16. Wonderful to buy something you want and contribute to this great cause at the same time. My husband was a vocational education teacher, but now in so many places those programs have been discontinued; we hate to see that. Glad Adele's High school excels in academics and vocational programs!

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  17. That's a beautiful white poinsettia.

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  18. They are very pretty in white! I like them too but unfortunately they are poisonous for cats so I can´t have one at home...

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  19. Very pretty in white. Selling poinsettias is a great fundraising idea, methinks.

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  20. Hi Sandy, this is gorgeous! Sorry I am so late commenting but I have been hard down with a bad cold these past two weeks and am just surfacing.

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  21. these lovely plants are a wonderful thing to sell, much better than candy, me thinks ;-)

    lovely holidays to you ~

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  22. I seldom see white poinsettias in Singapore. There are lots of red poinsettias decorating the shopping malls now.

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  23. Those are beautiful! I've always loved the red ones, but the white ones are lovely too.

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  24. That's a beautiful poinsettia.

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