Pat thank you so much for the Holiday wishes. Going right back for you also and the gorgeous pictures. I LOVE IT!!! Hope you have a wonderful 2010 and that we can share many great moments with our love to brugs, together. Lucy

That’s a luscious pointsettia! Yes, it is a process to coerce one of these plants to bloom again and not worth it for most. I see that your plant has developed a few small green leaves as has tried to grow past the old brachts. If you had fertilized, there would likely be more new foliage and some defoliation of the red brachts. You can see that chlorophyll is starting to develop on several of the brachts. Please let us know how your plants develop over the upcoming weeks/months. I predict, as the days begin to seriously shorten, that these plants will begin to change. Your indoor lighting may or may not supercede the plant’s natural daylength response. I had the fun experience of growing, with my fellow horticulture students, a couple of big greenhouses filled with poinsettias from small rooted cuttings delivered directly from the producer and breeder, Ecke. It was a long, careful process to grow the plants to commercial quality, and fill up the greenhouses with colorful plants. After that, we started on the florist mums!

@ilikefriday, I’d have to be really hungry to choke down those nuts. And if I dropped one, I’d dive for it. I was thinking that @Jilly (Won’t Tag!) could make these…

So, so pretty and lucky you. I admit to being a little jealous. I've browsed briefly through the website and nothing quite fits into what's left of this months budget 😊 Maybe another time, the leopard pillow is not just speaking to me, it's shouting.... My mother would have loved even just the bag - and I suspect would have looked for ways to try to duplicate the pillow with her skills in fabrics and handwork, a talent I did not inherit.