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Article: Poinsettias are red, poinsettias are blue.(Business)(Johnson Brothers dyes the popular holiday plant in nontraditional colors customers either love, or love not)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2004
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Byline: RETAIL NOTEBOOK By Joe Mosley The Register-Guard
COBURG - Rest assured, this is not what Elvis had in mind when he lamented his blue - blue, blue, blue Christmas.
Not even a lovesick crooner could picture a blue poinsettia.
But Sherrie Lewis can.
Not to mention a purple one, a peach-colored one - even one with a tie-dye effect. The Saturday Market poinsettia.
"People are excited," says Lewis, manager of the annuals department at Johnson Brothers Greenhouses. "Well, some people are, but some aren't."
The object of her customers' excitement - or lack thereof - is a smattering of unexpected colors in the ...