Carefully cultivation including 10 hours of darkness a day for 10 weeks went into growing the poinsettias filling a local greenhouse just in time for the holidays.
The greenhouse at the Southern Highland Community Mental Health Center started selling poinsettias Monday, according to Sherree Farmer, day program supervisor.
“This is the second year we’ve done it, and it’s been 10 years in between,” Farmer recalled, adding that the mental health center decided to start growing them again so the greenhouse’s workers, who are also served by Southern Highlands, could work all year. Their work has resulted in hundreds of poinsettias ready for the holidays.
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