Poinsettia Celebration

Mark Your Calendars for the17th Annual Poinsettia Celebration
November 17-18, 2007 from 10 am - 4 pm

Our 16th Annual Poinsettia Celebration was a great success! We hosted over 1800 visitors for our two day event that was highlighted by our Rainbow Poinsettia Tree. The poinsettias were colored with a special paint that will revert back to red the following year. While you're here be sure and stroll through our selection of poinsettia colors and also check out our Christmas Cactus, Cyclamen, Norfolk Pines and other seasonal plants.

Mark your calendar today for our 17th Annual Poinsettia celebration held November 17-18th 2007.As a premier poinsettia producer, Ellison's Greenhouses holds an annual Poinsettia Celebration the weekend before Thanksgiving. The Poinsettia Celebration is not only an excellent opportunity for you to learn more about the poinsettia varieties but also to celebrate the spirit of coming Christmas.

Ellison's Greenhouses provides a plant-lover's Eden of color and variety. Thousands of celebration visitors will be invited to tour the greenhouses brilliantly filled with mums, kalanchoes and other blooming and foliage plants, as well as embrace the wonder of more than 80,000 multicolor blooming poinsettia varieties in sizes ranging from 3" to 6' tall. They will also be able to preview many new varieties of annuals and perennials, many of which are specially bred for this area, displayed by some of the nation's top plant breeders, and to attend several educational mini-seminars throughout the weekend. Garden, interiorscape and floral design experts will present educational mini-seminars and will answer questions. The breeders will observe firsthand reactions to their new varieties by those attending the celebration, and therefore will be able to gauge variety popularity and probable future sales.
Also featured during the celebration will be arts and crafts, fun activities, and much more.

Join us in celebration on Saturday, November 18th and Sunday, November 19th, from 10 am till 4 pm (small admission fee goes to local charities). Come, Celebrate the season with Ellison's! A Texas Family Tradition for over 15 years!

The History and Legend of the Poinsettia

The poinsettia got its name from Joel R. Poinsett, who became the first American Ambassador to Mexico in 1825. He introduced the plant to the United States on one of his trips home.

The enchanting legend of the poinsettia dates back several centuries, to a Christmas Eve in Mexico when a little girl named Pepita had no gift to present to the Christ Child. Her cousin Pedro urged her to give a humble gift. So, on her way to church she gathered up some weeds she found along the road.

As she approached the altar, a miracle happened. The weeds blossomed into brilliant flowers! Then they were called Flores de Noche Buena – Flowers of the Holy Night. Now they are called poinsettias.