I should add - with moderation. I have two by my front door.
And I prefer the white ones over the bright red ones.

indeed, tis the season after all
I have just one. It's huge. It still had colored bracts up thru last July so I never took it outside. Did the light restriction thing this fall and it has set full color again. Awesome.

Wow- that's really impressive!!

Send us a picture Dirt!

okay, okay
but I'm not cleaning the plant room for it or moving anything out of the way (like the dormant bougainvillea stick tree or the hairy cat beds)

Here is the true story of the charlie brown poinsettia.
Purchased on clearance by well intended BF from BBS few days before Christmas in 2010. I put it outside in in the spring behind some tallish stuff because it looked pretty crappy. During fall cleanup I noticed that it was turning color (mild fall that year), so I brought it inside. It still looked pretty crappy--leggy and no leaves to speak of...but it was alive and trying to bloom! Here are a couple of embarrassing pictures of it taken on 2-19-12:


I re-potted it in about April and it moved outside again, but gave it more sun. Same story but with an earlier winter, a few more leaves, and bigger still, except it kept its color like I said thru July...and it looked so cool, in a charlie-brown-poinsettia kinda way that I never moved it out side...
and now it is an indoor shrub. Still leggy--especially on one side--and pathetic, but totally doing it's thing

and, you're all just going to have to believe me because I am not gonna clean up the charlie brown plant room anytime soon--

I think it's lovely. Really!

Is it a kind of miniature or are the blooms full size? I can't tell in the picture.

Currently, the largest bloom diameter is about 8inches and the plant actually has pretty decent sized leaves, but the bracts are narrower than properly cultured poinsettias, and the color less vivid.
In the pics from a couple years ago, it kinda did have a mini-thing going on!

Neat plant. I like uncommon growth patterns.

We currently have 22 that we bought this year - our Home depot does a promotion on the Friday after Thanksgiving where they sell 6" pots of them for $1 a piece while supplies lasts. We always get our trees that day and also load up on poinsettias.

I also have about 6 or 8 poinsettias outside that I've had over the last several years. If I remember to put the. On the side of the house with no lighting at night they color up well! I also have a variegated poinsettia that I LOVE!

haha--Thanks so much for the kind appreciation Sheryl. I like it too--fits in well with the retarded seasonal theme in that room.
Probably stupid, really, to hog up such premium space with a poinsettia shrub, (me thinks I'd rather have a new hoya there) but since my day job is all about death and dying (in every iteration so far) I genuinely struggle with condemning life to the compost pile on account of ugliness alone...
Maybe I'll plant it in the ground this year and let winter kill it. Is that cheating? I'd certainly be no less responsible for its death...and, why dig a senseless hole???
Where is the thread for the quandaries like this?

...I like it too--fits in well with the retarded seasonal theme in that room.

Ha!!! You are too funny!

Tell me when you are ready to let it go; I will pay for the postage to it's next life. There - no guilt!

Deal!
but seriously,
I just spied it in the window from a lame pic last spring (5-30-13)


The thing is huge. I don't think it is shipping anywhere...

Oh that is beautiful, and I have never seen it!!

That is a stunning variety!

I bought it at Wal-Mart for $3.98.

Talking about deals!!! Very nice.