Frosty the Snowman may have met a sad fate in a greenhouse filled with Christmas poinsettias, but the city’s greenhouse is a happy place to be at this time of year.
City staff has been carefully tending to hundreds of poinsettias that will soon be providing a festive feel to city facilities.
“The poinsettias are gorgeous,” said Claude LeDoux, the city’s manager of horticulture services. “We buy cuttings. We grow them into a full size plant.”
In the coming days, about 700 poinsettias will be shipped to locations around the city, including Century House.
“There is red, pink and white. We use them for our displays throughout the city,” LeDoux said. “It is refreshing to see them.”
The poinsettias aren’t the only plants currently found in the city’s greenhouses in Queen’s Park, as staff are already hard at work getting plants ready for next spring’s hanging baskets and gardens.
