Peddling poinsettias

Karen Momper wraps a EuroGlory poinsettia in gold paper for a customer in the Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Center on Dec. 4, 2008. Momper is a member of the Mizzou Horticulture Club, which grows and sells poinsettias every year.   ¦  ANGIE CIPPONERI/Missourian

The Mizzou Horticulture Club, consisting of agriculture students at MU, has been growing about 160 poinsettias throughout the semester and is selling them in order to raise funds. 

The club has three sales a year, which include selling roses for Valentine’s Day and budding plants for spring.  These funds are then used to help the club go on field trips and participate in service activities. 

Some service activities the club has performed in the past have included adopting a family, helping the elderly with landscaping and helping construct an urban garden in St. Louis to provide a neighborhood with cheap, fresh food.