About five years ago coleus was huge. Every landscape designer was using huge plants in huge designs. Container designers were using it by itself, and in a huge variety of combinations with annuals ...

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One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Coleus is a ...

Just as the right patterned fabric or a few throw pillows can make a whole room work, so functions coleus in the garden. It’s hard — impossible? — to think of another plant whose varieties display ...

There is no disguising the fact that coleus are astounding plants for adding bright foliage and interest in often trickier, shadier spots in the garden. With leaves in vivid shades of yellow, green, ...

Every Texas garden needs a splash of color. For decades, the coleus family of annuals has provided that color, but only in the shade where the plants could be protected from the summer sun. But ...

Experts recommend three ways to give your container garden a late-summer lift: trimming, feeding, and replacing tired plants ...

Summer color does not have to be restricted to flowers; a plant’s foliage can be just as colorful and last all season long. A good example is coleus. Velveteen coleus (Solenostemon scutellariodies, ...