When is National Poinsettia Day?
Tuesday December 12thOn National Poinsettia Day each year, people from around the country celebrate one of the holidays' most popular plants of the holidays.
The relationship between the poinsettia plant and the Christmas season begins in 16th-century Mexico.. A girl wanted desperately to celebrate Jesus' birthday, according to a legend. Worried, the teen was afraid she would have no gift to offer because she was so poor. An angel tells her to give any gift with love. The child carried them into the manger after obtaining weeds along the road. Miraculously the weeds bloomed into stunning red stars.
Joel Roberts Poinsett, an American botanist and the first US Minister to Mexico, was the first US minister to Mexico. He sent cuttings home to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1825.
However, the poinsettia didn't appear in American culture until the 1920s. Paul Ecke, a second-generation farmer in California, discovered a grafting method that led to the seedlings to branch. Hawking their Christmas flower at roadside stands, Paul Ecke Jr. later increased sales of the poinsettia by shipping and marketing. Hawking's Christmas flower at roadside stands.
