Natural living is on-trend. Interior design has embraced plants and natural materials as home accessories, which create a friendly, cosy atmosphere and invite you to relax. In autumn and winter, the poinsettia comes into its own as a natural gem; it plays an essential role in styling interiors. Winter rooms shine bright with the coloured bracts of this stunning plant. The experts from Stars for...

Bonn, 16.12.2019. Meals taken together are very important at Christmas time. A festive table decoration with poinsettias provides the perfect setting. The following ideas are sure to have something for every taste.

Bonn, 09.12.2019. Don’t forget: December 12th is Poinsettia Day. This tradition has been honoured in the USA for over 150 years. Whether as a gesture of love or friendship, an apology, a get-well wish, thank you or “just because” – there are so many reasons for surprising loved ones with a starry greeting on this day.

All pre-conceived notions of the poinsettia as a purely traditional pot plant have been blown away by the work of five über-talented professional florists. Tasked by Stars for Europe with designing a wedding bouquet incorporating a poinsettia, the five have revealed the poinsettia to be a spectacular, versatile and long-lasting cut flower. The trick to producing long-lasting cut poinsettia is to...

Plant experts at Stars for Europe tell us about the poinsettia varieities we’re missing out on.Delicate furled edges, ripples, rounded pom poms and scrunched velvet textures, in spectrums of colour from antique peach to deep maroon, cinammon hues, barbie pink, yellow, ombre, stripes and spatters. Few are aware of the poinsettia’s many changing faces, as over 80 per cent of the UK’s plants are...