University of Georgia:
Georgia: Horticulture students schedule annual poinsettia sale
The UGA chapter of the horticultural honor society Pi Alpha Xi has 500 of them, all grown by a senior class of horticulture students — no easy task, according to the professor who taught the capstone class.
“This is one of the toughest crops to grow in the horticulture world, any grower in the greenhouse industry will tell you that,” said horticulture professor Paul Thomas. “So we made this learning experience a special-problem, experiential-learning class. They (students) had to plan (the process), grow the cuttings from start to finish and figure out how they were going to market and sell them, just like professional growers would.”
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