{"id":9357,"date":"2013-12-01T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2013-11-30T08:11:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:11:54","slug":"variegated-poinsettia-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/variegated-poinsettia-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Variegated Poinsettia Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Poinsettia bought from shops or garden centres should not be allowed to get cold carrying them to the car. Even a small cold wind can make them drop their leaves. Wrap in a good polythene bag even for the short trip to your  home.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Poinsettia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5319670005\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5205\/5319670005_2ec0e0d589.jpg\" alt=\"Poinsettia\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Variegated Poinsettia are interesting pot plants on sale around Christmas. After Christmas the price is much lower and a good specimen can last many weeks or months before fading away.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are now totally cream leaved as well as the more common red plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> The coloured leaves are really bracts that will change to green or drop off if not looked after.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Poinsettia are susceptible to drafts and cold so should not be left on a windowsill or taken from a warm garden centre to a cold car.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not over water but also you must not let the plant become totally dry or the bracts will be shed prematurely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a title=\"Poinsettia with flash, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5320276496\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5010\/5320276496_4acc63e76e.jpg\" alt=\"Poinsettia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above picture is of the same plant but taken using flash photography. It illustrates how different plants look different under different light conditions.<\/p>\n<p>For more on plant and flower photography try <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881928909\/richardpettin-21\">Macro Photography for Gardeners <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881928909\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0881928909.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Poinsettia bought from shops or garden centres should not be allowed to get cold carrying them to the car. Even a small cold wind can make them drop their leaves. Wrap in a good polythene bag even for the short trip to your home. Variegated Poinsettia are interesting pot plants on sale around Christmas. After Christmas the price is much lower and a good specimen can last many weeks or months before fading away. There are now totally cream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/variegated-poinsettia-growing\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}