Comments on: Poinsettias http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/poinsettias A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:47:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lani http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/poinsettias/comment-page-1#comment-3332 Lani Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:14:19 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=366#comment-3332 I also saw poinsettias in Market! Market! I actually took pictures of it. Christmas na christmas na talaga. I also saw poinsettias in Market! Market! I actually took pictures of it. Christmas na christmas na talaga.

]]> By: Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/poinsettias/comment-page-1#comment-3329 Marketman Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:24:35 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=366#comment-3329 Skunkeye, Snow?! Oddly, I am envious. I love snow in small doses. They do have amaryllis here from dutch bulbs but the paperwhites seem to flounder in the heat (I tried growing them from bulbs I brought in my luggage one year).... Skunkeye, Snow?! Oddly, I am envious. I love snow in small doses. They do have amaryllis here from dutch bulbs but the paperwhites seem to flounder in the heat (I tried growing them from bulbs I brought in my luggage one year)….

]]> By: Skunkeye http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/poinsettias/comment-page-1#comment-3326 Skunkeye Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:51:09 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=366#comment-3326 Well I got a clarification from my mother about Baguio poinsettias... as I remeber, they did grow all over the Residence grounds but she claims the native varieties were "stalky" (ala the geraniums I've been growing for the last couple of years and bring in each winter to a sunny room just because I feel too guilty to let them die)- an dreally didn't serve much ornamental quality. I had this idyllic vision of all our poinsettias being grown on our land in Baguio and brought down to Manila (there were tons of em!) - but, alas, I suspect what we had were imports as you said. Its funny because the pricing for them is highly variable in cosmopolitan DC - city flower shops and supermarkets will chards upwards to twenty bucks for the plants - but if you go out to the suburbs to Home Depot or Lowes, you can find 4-5 plants for less than ten bucks. I do know, however, from experience, that these varieties don't last more than three weeks and do succumb to that affore-commented white rot. Maybe do a post on "paperwhites" or narcissi, forcing the bulbs that is, no? I have a huge, fragrant jungle going on right now indoors in my house and I seem to remember a pletheroa of them in HK which makes me think they might be of particular regional interest in Manila. My amarilyii are just staring to take root and grow - I'm looking forward to the blooms. this is the first time I'm working with non-pre-grown bulbs. I've also got daffodil bulbs that have been paper-bagged in fridge for some ten weeks now - I hope my forcing experiement works out... Haha, it is snowing here right now! Well I got a clarification from my mother about Baguio poinsettias…
as I remeber, they did grow all over the Residence grounds but she claims the native varieties were “stalky” (ala the geraniums I’ve been growing for the last couple of years and bring in each winter to a sunny room just because I feel too guilty to let them die)- an dreally didn’t serve much ornamental quality.
I had this idyllic vision of all our poinsettias being grown on our land in Baguio and brought down to Manila (there were tons of em!) – but, alas, I suspect what we had were imports as you said.
Its funny because the pricing for them is highly variable in cosmopolitan DC – city flower shops and supermarkets will chards upwards to twenty bucks for the plants – but if you go out to the suburbs to Home Depot or Lowes, you can find 4-5 plants for less than ten bucks.
I do know, however, from experience, that these varieties don’t last more than three weeks and do succumb to that affore-commented white rot.
Maybe do a post on “paperwhites” or narcissi, forcing the bulbs that is, no? I have a huge, fragrant jungle going on right now indoors in my house and I seem to remember a pletheroa of them in HK which makes me think they might be of particular regional interest in Manila. My amarilyii are just staring to take root and grow – I’m looking forward to the blooms. this is the first time I’m working with non-pre-grown bulbs.
I’ve also got daffodil bulbs that have been paper-bagged in fridge for some ten weeks now – I hope my forcing experiement works out…
Haha, it is snowing here right now!

]]> By: noel http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/poinsettias/comment-page-1#comment-3307 noel Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:37:46 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=366#comment-3307 It's summer here in Wellington. They have red flowering tree - pohutukawa which blooms with red flowers and has become the NZ's Christmas tree. Google the word pohutukawa and you can read more. http://www.opotiki.com/data/pohutuka.htm It’s summer here in Wellington. They have red flowering tree – pohutukawa which blooms with red flowers and has become the NZ’s Christmas tree. Google the word pohutukawa and you can read more.

http://www.opotiki.com/data/pohutuka.htm

]]> By: Mila http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/poinsettias/comment-page-1#comment-3306 Mila Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:33:46 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=366#comment-3306 I was talking to the lady who had a large set of poinsettias at Salcedo market last Saturday and she told me to do a quick spray of water with a little bit of soap to clean the stems and the undersides of the leaves, kills/prevents aphid infestation and hopefully will prevent the mold my poinsettias seem to get (maybe I have a white thumb?). I was talking to the lady who had a large set of poinsettias at Salcedo market last Saturday and she told me to do a quick spray of water with a little bit of soap to clean the stems and the undersides of the leaves, kills/prevents aphid infestation and hopefully will prevent the mold my poinsettias seem to get (maybe I have a white thumb?).

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