Poinsettia plants — 1,000 of them — will adorn Legoland for the holidays this year. In Little Italy, 1,500 poinsettias will deck the streets.
The poinsettias will come from Weidner’s Gardens in Encinitas, where because of the Ecke family, the plant became widely known as the Christmas flower and the city became known as the “Flower Capital of the World.”
“The reason the Weidners came to Encinitas is because they were friends with the Eckes in Los Angeles and they dragged them down here,” said Oliver Storm, head grower and co-owner of Weidner’s Gardens.
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