{"id":179792,"date":"2021-12-08T07:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=179792"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T17:54:06","slug":"house-plants-bring-holiday-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/12\/house-plants-bring-holiday-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"House Plants Bring Holiday Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to add some holiday cheer to your dorm or office? 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(Christie Wang\/UConn Photo)<\/div><div class=\"html5gallery-title\">UConn Horticulture Club Poinsettia Sale<\/div><\/div><a class=\"html5galleryimglink\" href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5909.jpeg\" data-mediatype=1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"html5galleryimg html5gallery-tn-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5909-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Dining Hall\" data-title=\"UConn Horticulture Club Poinsettia Sale\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\"><\/a><div class=\"html5gallery-info\"><div class=\"html5gallery-alt\">Dining Hall<\/div><div class=\"html5gallery-title\">UConn Horticulture Club Poinsettia Sale<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><script>function wondergallery_371_appendcss(csscode) {var head=document.head || document.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0];var style=document.createElement(\"style\");head.appendChild(style);style.type=\"text\/css\";if (style.styleSheet){style.styleSheet.cssText=csscode;} else {style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(csscode));}};wondergallery_371_appendcss(\"#wonderplugingallery-371 .html5gallery-cat-selection-371 { \ttext-align: center; }  #wonderplugingallery-371 .html5gallery-cat-tag-371 { \tdisplay: inline-block; \tborder: none; \tbackground: transparent; \tcolor: #555;   \tpadding: 6px; \tfont-size: 14px; \tfont-weight: normal; \t   \tfont-family: Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Grande,sans-serif,Arial;   \tbox-sizing: border-box;    \tcursor: pointer;   \ttext-align: center;   \ttext-decoration: none;   \ttext-shadow: none;   \ttext-transform: none;   \twhite-space: nowrap;   \t-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;   \tborder-radius: 2px;   \ttransition: background-color 0.3s ease; }  #wonderplugingallery-371 .html5gallery-cat-tag-371:hover, #wonderplugingallery-371 .html5gallery-cat-tag-371:focus, #wonderplugingallery-371 .html5gallery-cat-tag-selected-371 { \tcolor: #222; }\");<\/script>\n<p>\u201cI think one of the biggest things I\u2019ve noticed about this annual activity is it really has brought together the community,\u201d Isabelle Hudson &#8217;23 (CLAS), president of the Horticulture Club says. \u201cIt\u2019s really nice to see how we impact the community around us and to see our plants around campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sale includes four-, six-, and eight-inch poinsettias with red, white, and pink flowers. 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The sale continues Thursday December 9 and Friday December 10, 2:30-6:00 PM in the Floriculture Building (formerly UConn Blooms) on Storrs Road.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/uconncahnr_social\"><em>UConn CAHNR<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0on social media<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorful poinsettias grown by UConn students brighten dorms and offices around the holidays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":179790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224,2303,2235,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2140],"class_list":["post-179792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr","category-plant-science-landscape-architecture","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 18:49:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179797,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179792\/revisions\/179797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/179790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179792"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=179792"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=179792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}