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US (MD): Greenway Farms in Cooksville grows thousands of poinsettias, start to finish

When Mike Healey says Greenway Farms is always in the Christmas spirit, he isn’t kidding. Perhaps best known for its choose-and-cut Christmas trees, Greenway can lay sole claim to another specialty in Howard County: raising homegrown poinsettias, which get their start in midsummer.

Containing 2,600 plants in 21 varieties, a large greenhouse at the Cooksville farm off Route 97 is awash in a sea of vivid red, pink, white and burgundy by late October.

“When you walk in here, it’s instant Christmas,” says Mike, 42, who oversees the poinsettias for his parents, farm owners David and Marianne Healey.

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