Triad family grows the most variety of poinsettias in NC [Video]

POINSETTIAS ARE OFTEN CONSIDERED THE PLANT. OF THE HOIDAYS. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF THE BRIGHTLY COLORED PLANTS ARE GROWN RIGHT HERE IN THE TRIAD. MITCHELL’S NURSERY AND GREENHOUSE. AND KING IS CELEBRATING DECADES OF GROWING POINSETTIAS. WXII 12 KELLY KENDALL SPOKE TO THE FAMILY BEHIND THE OPERATION. FOR MANY, THESE BRIGHT RED LEAVES SIGNIFY THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOLIDAYS. BUT FOR THE MITCHELL FAMILY, GROWING THOUSANDS OF POINSETTIAS IS A REMINDER OF THEIR 45 YEARS OF GROWING THEIR BUSINESS. RED, WHITE. SPECKLED. TALL, SHORT AND ANYTHING IN BETWEEN. IF THERE’S A TYPE OF POINSETTIA. MITCHELL’S NURSERY AND GREENHOUSE GROWS IT. THIS YEAR WE POTTED BETWEEN 12 AND 13,000. WE HAD 85 DIFFERENT TYPES OF POINSETTIAS. STOKES COUNTY COUPLE JIM AND JUDY MITCHELL STARTED THEIR BUSINESS IN A SMALL LOT IN 1979, 45 YEARS AND 17 GREENHOUSES LATER, JIM, JUDY AND THEIR SON JAY GROW THE MOST VARIETY OF THE HOLIDAY …