Awww...if you only live nearby, I would gladly rescue the orchid from you after its blooming period.
Do you ever repot it after you first get the orchid or even after its bloom period?? If that is a Phalaenopsis orchid, I find that these orchids do a much deserved long rest after blooming for such a long period. Then slowly grows new leaves and roots, drops older lower leaves, rests a little more, and come cold season it will try again to bloom.
I have never bought nor tried any poinsettia yet, even if I see them around. Usually I have at least one orchid rebloomer or my schlumbergera wakes up so I have those for my holiday flowering plants.
