One of them was Alice Le Duc, who saw the potential value of the clear white flowers in crossbreeding with the Christmas poinsettia, and she passed some of her stock to the breeders at the Ecke Ranch.

It’s that time of year when the nip in the air reminds one of the white small leaf Poinsettia, which, apparently in Florida, is called the little Christmas Flower. All across the city ...

But they’re native to Central America, particularly southern Mexico, and they’re actually colorful leaves, not flowers. So why do we consider them the official Christmas flowers anyway?

Rows and rows of the iconic “Christmas flower,” the poinsettia, fill over 100,000 square feet of glass greenhouse in a burst of festive colors every holiday season at New Jersey’s Lennon ...

Jenney expects the number of lorries bringing fresh produce and cut flowers into the UK to “at least double” in the weeks leading up to Christmas. He said: “Those countries that are substantial fresh ...