25 Best Flowers and Plants for Christmas

The holiday season's most festive (and ubiquitous) flower is the scarlet-blooming poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima). It's an evergreen, semi-evergreen, or deciduous shrub that can thrive indoors or outdoors. Its showy, petal-like bracts are well-known at Christmastime, as it is omnipresent in the single red form. Other forms are double-bracted, white, yellow, and pink, but you're most likely to encounter scarlet leaves at your local garden stores.

CARE: Avoid overwatering poinsettia plants. Take care to water moderately only when the soil becomes dry. Poinsettias require little in the way of care and will grow tall and leggy before you know it. If you take cuttings, do so in late summer and encourage blooming by ensuring new plants get up to 14 hours of darkness per day beginning in October.

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