Find out why coleus plants are popular annuals for gardeners and why you should add this easy-care plant to your garden.

The search for the perfect rusty orange coleus may have ended with a hot new selection called Campfire. It is rare when a plant debuts at the Spring Plant Trials in California and then becomes the hot ...

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 ...

About halfway through my Landscaping with Color seminars, I always tease attendees that if they get confused with what I am telling them then just remember this: "Plant coleus." Plant coleus with ...

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, ...

Foliage can be as effective as flowers, or more effective in some cases, in providing colorful beauty the entire season. Flowers cycle though the season, but when beautiful foliage is in the mix, the ...

A green backdrop of shrubs is beautiful with colorful plants growing in front of them, and in shady locations, colorful plants brighten up the area. The plants that I am thinking of for this article ...

A green backdrop of shrubs is beautiful with colorful plants growing in front. Not to mention, in shady locations, colorful plants brighten up the area. The plants that I am thinking of for this ...

Coleus is king of the garden as the National Garden Bureau proclaims 2015 as the year of the coleus. The bureau selects three plants each year to receive its spotlight awards — one edible, one ...

When other coleus cultivars have sent up flower spikes in late summer, Henna continues to produce leaves and maintains an attractive appearance. The plants often have not bloomed by the time the first ...