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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plants brighten up any space, but if you've got a shady patio, it might be hard to find plants that can thrive. Luckily, we're here to help you out.

Garden Variety is an occasional column about growing plants without grief. On the sunniest Deep South day, wisely planted under the dark green backdrop of a shady tree, a clump of coleus will shimmer ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

July is a difficult month in Bay Area gardens. For a few days, the sun will bake the garden in true summer fashion, and then the fog will rush in, bringing cool, misty weather and a good dose of ...

As summer ends, the coleus is at its peak. These plants are known for their beautiful foliage color versus flowers. It's hard to watch my coleus plants die after the first frost. Thankfully, coleus is ...

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 ...

I brought in some coleus last fall per your suggestion and am finding the new growth has lost a lot of the vibrant color it had in the garden last year. Is there something I need to do differently to ...