Coleus is considered the "comeback kid" or more accurately, the comeback garden plant. When I was growing up, it was a popular plant but then you did not hear much about coleus for a long time. Today, ...

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 ...

Coleus in containers: As in the flower garden, coleus can be used with other plants, or you could fill an entire container with coleus, either one kind or a variety. If they are movable, containers ...

When shopping for plants to fill containers, geraniums, marigolds, New Guinea impatiens, petunias, salvia, zinnias and other flowering annuals quickly fill our carts. These are all good choices; many ...

Henna coleus is a large robust plant, growing to be about 24 to 30 inches tall and 18 to 20 inches wide. It's suitable for the middle or back of flowerbeds. Plant it in the middle of a large container ...

Move over, impatiens, and make way for coleus. A decade or two ago, impatiens were the most widely planted shade-loving plant in the annual garden. But the downy mildew fungus quickly caused Impatiens ...

Just like people, plants can re-invent themselves, and none more dramatically than coleus. Once regarded as purely a shade plant, the new generation of coleus thrive in sun or semi shade, with leaves ...

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 ...