It’s what we all want: something that grows well anywhere in the yard or garden, looks terrific, and can stand the heat of our Gulf Coast summers. Gardening expert Bill Finch says the answer is coleus ...

Gardeners are a curious, rebellious group. We thrive on the exotic and tend to avoid plants that are either familiar, easy to grow, or both. How else to explain the relative absence of coleus from our ...

Coleus are hugely popular plants that are grown for their highly decorative and vivid foliage. They are versatile plants and can be added to summer bedding schemes, used as a great container plant for ...

Whether tucked into shady garden beds or grown in sun-dappled containers, coleus plants are loved for their bold, colorful foliage. But when colder weather rolls in, many gardeners start to wonder: ...

When Joe Ward, general manager at Southwood Landscape and Nursery, suggested coleus as the featured species for the 2018 trial beds at the Linnaeus Teaching Garden, my first thought was: Why? Coleus ...

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 ...

For many of us, a passion for flowers drew us into gardening in the first place. But in time, even the most ardent lover of all things petaled has to admit that a garden based only on blooms is ...

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 ...

In the next few weeks I’m going to begin taking cuttings from plants to propagate and grow in the OPC atrium over the winter. At the top of my list is coleus – I think of them as the Joseph’s coats or ...

Actually, in all its varieties, coleus is very well-behaved. Some mass and mound nicely, like a giant mushroom cap. Others creep elegantly along the ground, hang well in baskets or spill gracefully ...

Is coleus a perennial that comes back every year? That depends on where you live and how you care for it. Whether tucked into shady garden beds or grown in sun-dappled containers, coleus plants are ...