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Many people receive poinsettias during the holidays and don't know that you can keep them growing all year long and get them to re-bloom the next year - if you're lucky!

Poinsettias are the number one houseplant bought and sold each holiday season. Here's a look at their history and care.

The holiday are here and that means it's time for some very special houseplants. Learn more about everyone's favorite holiday plants for indoor decor!

Skunk cabbage is a wetland plant with big leaves and stunning yellow or brown bracts that look like flowers. Try these unusual plants in the water or wetland garden.

The holidays are on the way, and that means the arrival of some very special houseplants. To keep them looking their best now and beyond the holidays, read these tips!

Selecting and caring for a poinsettia is simple and easy.

Follow these simple poinsettia buying tips to purchase a fresh and healthy poinsettia for the longest lasting display this holiday season for yourself -- or as a gift.

Here is a simple windowsill gardening project. Grow a liitle "furr" tree before Christmas. This clever little project will amaze and delight your children.

Acanthus is an ancient Greek plant which has huge architectural significance both literally and in the garden. Grown for its arching green leaves and tall floral spires.

Poinsettias are a popular gift plant for the Holidays. Find out how to grow yours throughout the year and have your own Christmas plants next year!

From Ohio's Dill's Greenhouse, nursery grower talks about the best holiday poinsettia plants and the culture care to have healthy indoor flora at home.

Flowers for beach gardens in the USA can be both colorful and exotic; suitable salt tolerant species of beach flowers include bougainvillea, ivy geranium and day lily.

The pungent aromas of certain plants indicate the presence of volatile oils that have specific effects on the human body.

Holiday plants such as poinsettia and cactus are popular as decorations and gifts during the holiday season, but do you know how to care for them afterwards?

The most popular flowering holiday plant, the poinsettia may be grown as a bush or a tree.

Every winter gardeners crave blooms, color, flowers, green leaves and spring! Try raising some of these easy flowering plants inside.

Oswego Tea or Bee Balm and other species of Monarda are among the most colorful natives for the summer garden.

Peace lilies from the damp soil of humid, tropical rainforests, praised for their beauty and durability, are praised also for their power as indoor air purifiers.

This striking newcomer to interior plantscaping is a favorite accent piece that thrives on neglect.

Brilliant hues of the foliage and flower of the amazing bromeliad create beautiful color as a houseplant. An unusual array of leaf formation and color.

Use the festive poinsettia as part of your holiday decor.

The Green Man has become popular in the West since environmental awareness grew in the 1960s, and this article documents the pagan symbol's earliest evidence in Europe.

National Poinsettia Day, is a day to celebrate the pretty Christmas plant, Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima). Poinsettias now come in a variety of colors as well!

The Composites have floral parts consisting of multiple tiny flowers--complete with minuscule pistil, stamens, petals, and sepals--merged into one head or disk.

Fall brings not just the reds and yellows of turning leaves, but also the bright colors of berries on many common trees.

Looking for a distinctive plant to give as a present this Christmas? Then break from traditional, but deservedly popular Poinsettias, with either an orchid or a bromeliad

Christmas is associated with many traditional plants, some more well known than others; plants used to decorate homes at Christmas may originate from a variety of places.

The holidays are here and what better way to celebrate them than by replacing your traditional holiday tree with an alternative such as an herb or tropical plant!

Twig bark is available year-round, but fall is the time to harvest the stems of fibrous plants for making cordage, otherwise known as string.

Euphorbia Diamond Frost® is the best plant for complementing poinsettias. Both are easy to grow, classically decorate homes and keep throughout a winter holiday season.

Evergreens are a great way to have a garden without any bare spots or lack of foliage as the seasons change.

Complement and coordinate your personal fall wardrobe with designer purples from plants grown in the garden.

A sunny window brings blooms to anthurium, lipstick plant, goldfish plant, begonias, peace lily, kalanchoe, and more indoor plants.

What better way to please your Valentine - or a special friend - on Valentine's Day than with an indoor plant with flowers that will keep blooming.

The spectacular Heliconia is exotic and graceful. It is ideal as a landscape focal plant, thrives as a potted plant and lasts for ages as a decorative cut flower.

Save poinsettias from post-holiday trash bins! These pretty plants can survive Christmas, thrive in sunny windows or southern gardens and be enjoyed for years to come.

Never been able to keep a poinsettia looking good for long? Give it the conditions it likes, look after it with care and it will be a joy to behold for several months.

Northwest conifers may seem similar, but when you look closely at the needles and cones, it's easy to tell a pine from a fir or a hemlock from a red-cedar.

Plants that stay green in winter under the snow include a handful of herbs that can be easily harvested for medicinal use; some of them are also edible.

Houseplants come from tropical forests and arid regions around the world. Knowing the origin of a specific plant can help in providing it with proper care.

Sort out the poison rumors about poinsettias, and learn how to care for this exotic, flowering Christmas plant.

Poinsettias are more popular at Christmas than during any other season of the year. However, too many people throw out their poinsettias along with their Christmas trees.

Full of history and lush beauty, the Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton Americanus) is one of the first signs of spring in the BC coastal forest.

Some plants look better naked. Those deciduous shrubs which display attractive, colourful bark can be used to create dramatic effects which enliven the garden in winter.

Kids get new ideas for windowsill gardens which can be used in classroom or homeschool.

Going to Yellowstone National Park this spring? Take US 16 to see lovely Wyoming wildflowers. Learn about five commonly seen native wildflowers of the Big Horn Mountains.

Amorphophallus, possibly the world's stinkiest plant, has made headlines and brought in crowds each time it has bloomed.

It's difficult for most trees to tolerate the pollution in city air and the pressure of trampling feet over their roots, so the number of urban species is limited.

By observing nature, you can develop some striking contrasts in your desert garden. A red Don Juan rose and a purple penstemmon are examples of such juxtapositions.

Familiar holiday plants have a colorful history in Christmas tradition. Some are wrapped in lore stretching back to medieval times; others rise from more recent legends.