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If you've seen one poinsettia, you've seen them all in Newport Beach. Correct? No!

The photo above shows a glazed, richly painted poinsettia that decorates a lantern sitting in front of an island home on Balboa Island in Newport Beach.  Overlooking the Newport Bay, this house and most others facing the bay are decked to the nines for the Christmas holiday. They overlook one of the oldest, largest and most lavish Christmas boat parades on the West Coast of the USA.

But what does all this have to do with poinsettias, you ask? Poinsettias are grown by the hundreds of thousands in California, the top grower of poinsettias in the US. While poinsettias are also grown in greenhouses around the United States, California maintains the perfect climate for maximum growth.

In Newport Beach's Balboa, you'll see the poinsettia is one of the Christmas holiday favorites for decorations, potted plants along the shopping district at Marine Avenue, and thrives in the outdoors as well as inside. To purchase poinsettia artificial decorations, Rodgers Gardens on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach, and many of the boutiques along Marine Avenue offer a variety of artificial designs.

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