Design Crafters

One
of the most popular and beautiful Christmas plants is the Poinsettia. The Poinsettia is a plant native to Mexico
and prized for its bright colors, most commonly the festive dark red one. It was first introduced to the United
States in 1828, by Joel R. Poinsett, the U.S.
ambassador to Mexico.

This most popular holiday plant can now be bought at almost any supermarket,
mall, and nursery across the United States. They come in green as well as the more popular red. You will be hard pressed this holiday season
to find a house or church that doesn’t have one of these plants placed on
the doorstep or adorning the fireplace! Most people don’t just buy one, but several. They are inexpensive and will last all winter if cared for properly. What a great gift as well, for Christmas (just add a Christmas card), or any time leading up to Christmas as a house warming or hostess gift.

I couldn’t pass up an opportunity here just to mention that if you are really into poinsettias, we have some beautiful poinsettia Christmas cards you might want to check out in our contemporary Christmas card section as well as the Miscellaneous section.

There are so many different combinations of gift baskets or “gift
basket” type of ideas that can be assembled for Christmas gifts, that you can
really customize almost anything and the recipient will feel very special that
you have gone to the trouble to put something together that is so perfect with
their taste and interest.

Do you need to buy a Christmas gift for someone who is into gardening? What you
can do for them is to buy a nice flower pot (look for a sale); half fill it
with crumples tissue paper or straw. Then arrange some packets of seeds, an
inexpensive hand trowel and fork, plant labels/ties, a notebook, green string
and a budget gardening book or magazine. Stick a Christmas card in
there and wrap it all up with cellophane and tie with a crinkly ribbon and you
are all set.