{"id":65178,"date":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-master-gardeners-offer-63-varieties-of-poinsettias-for-sale-dec-5\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-master-gardeners-offer-63-varieties-of-poinsettias-for-sale-dec-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/uri-master-gardeners-offer-63-varieties-of-poinsettias-for-sale-dec-5\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners offer 63 varieties of poinsettias for sale, Dec. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPlants were part of National Poinsettia Trials<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 18, 2009 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners will offer 63 varieties of poinsettias for sale to the public on Dec. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. The sale of the 1,100 unusual plants, plus a limited number of handmade wreaths, centerpieces, and other holiday decorations, will take place in the Master Gardener greenhouses at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s East Farm on Route 108 in Kingston.<\/p>\n


\nProceeds from the sale fund Master Gardener programs throughout Rhode Island. <\/p>\n


\nThe poinsettias are not the ordinary run-of-the-mill plants available in every big box store during the holidays, according to Master Gardener Francine McVay, who coordinated the project. The plants cannot be found in any store, and because many of them are new varieties, they haven\u2019t even been named yet.<\/p>\n


\nAll of the plants were part of the National Poinsettia Trial. Seedlings were provided to the 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners by three commercial poinsettia growers \u2013 Ecke, Syngenta and Dummen\/Red Fox \u2013 and 90 volunteer gardeners cared for them and collected data about them throughout the growing season. Now that the trials are complete, the plants can be sold to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cGrowing poinsettias is a demanding job,\u201d McVay said. \u201cThe plants are extremely sensitive to temperature and light. If they don\u2019t receive the required hours of darkness, they will not set flower buds. And then there are the armies of insect pests \u2013 whiteflies, fungus gnats, and aphids \u2013 we had to manage.\u201d

\nMcVay said that while it may be more convenient to purchase poinsettias at the corner store, it\u2019s worth a trip to 溏心vlog免费B站 for the quality and variety of plants available.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThese plants are cultivars that growers hope will be available someday to the public, but at this sale, connoisseurs and the curious can browse and buy them now,\u201d she said. \u201cWith 63 varieties, the choice is mind-boggling \u2013 that is if you get there early before the most unique plants have been scooped up.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFor additional information about the poinsettia sale, contact McVay at 401-225-3551.<\/p>\n

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Plants were part of National Poinsettia Trials KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 18, 2009 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners will offer 63 varieties of poinsettias for sale to the public on Dec. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. The sale of the 1,100 unusual plants, plus a limited number of handmade wreaths, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}