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Alex Laurie
Alex Laurie, floriculture professor, Ohio State University. The Society of American Florists established an award in his name in 1948.
Andreas Kientzler and wife
Andreas Kientzler, Kientzler Company and Innovaplant with wife, presumably in Costa Rica.
At Fides, Dutch company
At Fides, Dutch company.
Business trip to Nara, Japan
From left to right: Paul Ecke Jr., Manabu Kurishima, Kimie Kurishima (wife of Manabu), Lizbeth Ecke, and Professor Tsurishima. Taken on a business trip to visit Japanese poinsettia growers and establish a plant patent act in Japan.
Delegation from the Japanese Poinsettia Growers Association touring the Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Delegation from the Japanese Poinsettia Growers Association touring the Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Dr. Marc Cathey, Dinah Shore and Paul Ecke Jr.
Dr. Marc Cathey (left), director, U.S. National Arboretum, Dinah Shore (center), and Paul Ecke Jr. (right) on the set of the Dinah Shore Show. Paul Ecke Jr. promoted poinsettias on national television shows during Christmas. The Paul Ecke Ranch…
Employee harvesting cut poinsettia flowers
Employee harvesting cut poinsettia flowers in a field of outdoor blooming poinsettias.
Employee recognition event
Paul Ecke III (back, center) with unidentified people.
Employees sticking cuttings of a spring plant
Yolanda Rocha (left) and Abel Morales.
Experimental double deck propagation system for poinsettia cuttings
Experimental double deck propagation system for poinsettia cuttings.
Flower Fields Alliance members
From left to right: Joel Goldsmith, Goldsmith Seeds, Joseph Fischer, Fischer Geraniums, Paul Ecke III, Tom Doak, Yoder Brothers, and Richard Goldsmith, Goldsmith Seeds. The Flower Fields Alliance included four independent flower breeders.
Louise Fohl
Family friend.
Members of the secret "Potted Flowering Plant Growers Society"
Paul Ecke Sr. (seated, sixth from the left), Jim Leider from Chicago, and other unidentified people. The group met annually to travel and visit floriculture sites across the world.
Paul Ecke de Guatemala Farm 1, near Antigua, Guatemala
Ricardo Campos, general manager, Paul Ecke de Guatemala (PEG) with employee, Andreas Kientzler, and Ludwig Kientzler of the Kientzler company in Germany (they licensed to the Ecke Ranch their New Guinea impatiens for the U.S.).
Paul Ecke III and Bruce __
Bruce __, grower from Michigan.