The local greenhouse grows 150,000 poinsettias in Bowmanville each year, and ships them Costco and Canadian Tire stores across the province. Rekker’s poinsettias sell in retail stores across southeast Ontario, from Ottawa to Mississauga and up north to Barrie and Lindsay. Most of the poinsettias are red (85 per cent) but Rekker’s also grows white and pink poinsettias. The greenhouse runs a week ahead of the retailers, which means by Dec. 18 the poinsettias have shipped out of Bowmanville. “It keeps us going from spring crop, to summer crop to Christmas crop.

Source: thestar December 09, 2019 00:45 UTC