The poinsettias in my garden have exploded into colour. It’s been quite a welcome sight after a grey and misty weekend which spelled out that winter has definitely arrived.
I bought the yellow variant from a Saturday market last year.
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Earth Under My Feet 
lovely photos – I particularly like the third one (macro) very sharp. I hate poinsettias here in the UK – miserly little plants in pots EVERYWHERE at Christmas time. I did have a tree in the garden in Muizenberg which was stunning and I guess spoiled me for the pot plants. Is the yellow variant as good as the original?
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Aww, thank you 🙂 The red tree blooms profusely for most of the year. It’s near the front door and outside the room where I write, so it’s a gorgeous blaze of colour. I’ve noticed the sunbirds like it too. I’ve only had the yellow for a year or so and the plant is still only knee height, but it’s nowhere near as magnificant as the red. It’s a bit insipid in comparison actually, but I bought it because it was so different.
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Amazing to see them growing outside like that. For us they are temperature sensitive plants seen around Christmas.
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I was just as amazed when I bought the house. I knew nothing about them having only seen them in the shops as houseplants before. The first time the tree lost its leaves and all was left were sticks, I still thought “Oh well there goes that”, but every year it comes back and blooms beautifully 🙂
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colorful 🙂
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they are also good for controlling moles 🙂 lovely photos
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Thank you Brigid! By moles do you mean the big dune ones or the little golden moles, because right now the latter are burrowing a labyrinth around my front lawn not far from the poinsettias. Perhaps I should plant more 🙂
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I mean the little golden moles. yes perhaps you should plant more. 🙂 they strike from cuttings very easily, and now is the time to do it
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I’m trying to picture my front lawn with umpteen poinsettia cuttings sticking up!! 🙂 I need a Mole Whisperer!
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he he…. whisper whisper, perhaps the rain will drive them away for the moment 🙂
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I wish! The rain makes the ground softer and the worms more active so they churn up the lawn. It looks like a motorboat went across the grass!!!
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