Red Baron

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When Paul Ecke III inspects his business operations, the effect is like Moses parting the Red Sea. Washed in the milky light peculiar to greenhouses, Ecke glides through an ocean of crimson: 'Red Satin', 'Red Baron', and, of course, 'Freedom'.

Ecke pauses to admire one especially pulchritudinous example of this last specimen. "'Freedom' is our Michael Jordan," he says. "It is as good at what it does as Michael Jordan is."

'Freedom' is a poinsettia. If as you read this you have a holiday poinsettia lurking nearby, you have Paul Ecke III and his family to thank.

Euphorbia pulcherrima played a large role in my childhood Christmases. I grew up in Ventura, a Southern California town that styled itself "The Poinsettia City by the Sea." Out of civic duty, residents annually acquired poinsettias by the truckload, until it seemed to me the flower must have been part of Christmas since the time of the original St. Nicholas.

The reality is different, I find when I visit the Paul Ecke Ranch, in Encinitas on the San Diego County coast.

"The poinsettia was named for Joel Poinsett," Ecke tells me. "He was the first American ambassador to Mexico." In 1828, Ecke explains, Poinsett noticed the plant growing near Taxco and sent it home to South Carolina. It might have remained mere botanical novelty were it not for Ecke's ancestors.
When Paul Ecke III inspects his business operations, the effect is like Moses parting the Red Sea. Washed in the milky light peculiar to greenhouses, Ecke glides through an ocean of crimson: 'Red Satin', 'Red Baron', and, of course, 'Freedom'.

Ecke pauses to admire one especially pulchritudinous example of this last specimen. "'Freedom' is our Michael Jordan," he says. "It is as good at what it does as Michael Jordan is."

'Freedom' is a poinsettia. If as you read this you have a holiday poinsettia lurking nearby, you have Paul Ecke III and his family to thank.

Euphorbia pulcherrima played a large role in my childhood Christmases. I grew up in Ventura, a Southern California town that styled itself "The Poinsettia City by the Sea." Out of civic duty, residents annually acquired poinsettias by the truckload, until it seemed to me the flower must have been part of Christmas since the time of the original St. Nicholas.

The reality is different, I find when I visit the Paul Ecke Ranch, in Encinitas on the San Diego County coast.

"The poinsettia was named for Joel Poinsett," Ecke tells me. "He was the first American ambassador to Mexico." In 1828, Ecke explains, Poinsett noticed the plant growing near Taxco and sent it home to South Carolina. It might have remained mere botanical novelty were it not for Ecke's ancestors.

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