Mitchell's Nursery Annual Poinsettia Tour and Open House

ANNUAL POINSETTIA TOUR AND OPEN HOUSE

Our annual poinsettia preview tour at 10 AM on Nov. 23, 2019, is fast approaching. The preview tour was designed to guide you through the growing process of our poinsettias from start to finish. Serving up some wonderful and fascinating information, it lasts about an hour or a bit less. It provides us all with some insight into the peculiar circumstances that must come together to make it possible for the poinsettias to show color. This is a great opportunity for a school or church group. In addition to the knowledge gained, you will have the opportunity to see the greenhouse in its full glory of holiday splendor and color. We encourage you to visit us during this season even if it's just to revel in the awe of the sea of color that is bursting forth in the greenhouse.

 Every year, Mitchell's Nursery grows thousands of poinsettias and every year as the days get shorter and the darkness stays longer, the greenhouse experiences some magic of sorts. This is the time that the poinsettias begin to change color to become the beautiful holiday flower we all know and love.
This is also the time that we encourage everyone to come to see the greenhouse at its best before we start sending out orders by the truckload, before the local churches come to pick up their poinsettias, and before the general public begins their buying frenzy.

Following shortly after the tour, just a few short weeks, we will open our doors on December 1, 2019, for our Annual Poinsettia Open House. It is around this time that we will be moving the highest volume of poinsettias for the season. Mitchell's Nursery participates in poinsettia trials every year. These trials were designed to survey the growing success of new varieties of poinsettias each year. Breeders will visit the greenhouse to see the progress of the new plants and determine the plant's future in the market. These trials give the public a chance to purchase varieties that are not yet available in other retail outlets. Mitchells is one of only two retail growers in the state of North Carolina to participate in these trials. These trial varieties don't even have official names yet, just numbers to identify them.

This is the ONLY Sunday of the year that the nursery is open. Ballots will be passed out so that you may cast your vote for your favorite poinsettias of the 2019 season. This event provides refreshments and lots of holiday smiles. Voting begins about a week before our Open House and continues until Dec. 7. You can vote for an old favorite or one of the new varieties. Your votes count in the trials to gauge public reaction to the new poinsettias. Depending on the entire result of the trial, this will determine if these varieties will make it to the general public or if they will undergo some subtle changes and reappear with a new number or maybe plans for that variety will be scrapped altogether. YOUR VOTE MATTERS! And if you purchase one of the trial plants, it is almost certain that you won't find anyone else that has that exact kind, unless they shop at Mitchell's too!