This poinsettia looks like it did a month ago when I brought it home from the grocery store. These were once expensive, finicky plants from a florist shop and you were lucky if they made it through December without dropping their leaves. Now they've been genetically modified to the point of looking fake, almost forever.
The story of how a wild tropical shrub became a ubiquitous potted plant is pretty interesting. The cultivated poinsettias are actually infected with a
bacteria that stunts their growth, keeping them small and compact. In fact, they don't grow at all. And the plant breeders have endlessly tinkered with the colors.
Well, fake or not, it’s something bright on yet another soaking dark day. Only the 11th, and most locations around Puget Sound have already exceeded the average rainfall for January.
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