Coleus Indoors

Velvety chocolate leaves are each perfectly dotted along the rim with bright mint green, for a luminous look. High-voltage contrast punctuates each leaf of our latest coleus, providing bold drama to the partially shady corners of the garden.

Coleus, Chocolate Covered Cherry displays one of the best foliage patterns – the rose center on each leaf is surrounded by deep mahogany and edged with a thin green margin. Great for planting in combinations with impatiens and begonias.

Coleus is unrivalled when it comes to infusing the shady mid-border with succulent, sensuous textured foliage drenched with high-allure color. Robust, disease-resistant plants, while thriving in heat and humidity, look their colorful best when kept moist.

Velvety chocolate leaves are punctuated perfectly along the rim with bright green. Disease free and easy to grow, perfect for south and south-east climates with hot and humid summers.

A mixture of many colors, please see picture for color idea. Compact, late flower Coleus! Requires no pinching! Reaches 10 to 12 inches high at maturity, showing color just 8 weeks from sowing.

The mix of coleus enchants with its variations of pattern, detail and color, with sensuous shades of copper, orange, and nearly black. Rich Mediterranean colors on a grand scale; the plants boast leaves up to 8" long.

GARDEN HINTS: Likes evenly moist soil. Coleus turns shady areas into kaleidoscopes of color. Let this impressive beauty work some magic in your containers and shady beds. Large heart-shaped leaves.

‘Olive Mosaic's enchanting, multicolored oblate leaves, with their hand-painted look, create a tropical spectacle in the shade from spring until late summer. Coleus is a foliage plant par excellence, a favorite of discerning gardeners since Victorian...

Coleus is grown for its brilliant, glowing foliage rather than flowers. Spectacular for beds and borders. This is an outstanding mixture formulated to provide the best and brightest colors of medium-sized leaf varieties.

Keep the soil somewhat moist and ensure that it'sto create a bushy look, though most of the Under the Sea types are more compact naturally anyway (topping out at around 15 to 18 inches high and a foot or so wide), so this may not even be an issue.freestar.queue.push(function()...

Watch the plant closely. Can I grow coleus indoors? At this point, resume normal care.Once you begin growing coleus as an indoor plant, its continued care is important in keeping the plant healthy.

I paid $1,743.53 for everything listed. This was a personal project that just never took off and now I need the money for other things. There's a couple things missing depending on your exact setup as far as nutrients and whatnot.

Although it's not required, the plants can be given a boost of half-strength liquid fertilizer during their active growth in spring and summer.Their spiked flowers usually appear in summer; however, these can be removed if desired.

If desired, dip the cutting inPrepare the soil you will be rooting the coleus cutting in by making sure that it is thoroughly moistened. Is a favorite among shade and container gardeners.

Likewise, you can keep them in the same pots. Make sure you get as much of the root system as possible. Simply root three- to four-inch cuttings in late August (or prior to cold weather) by potting them up and moving them indoors.Remove the bottom leaves...

Since they will stay compact if need be, coleus in pots pair well with other plants.You can plant them as shorter ground cover in large pots featuring a tree or tall shrub, or you can plant them as the main tall attraction surrounded by other trailing...

You can stop this in its tracks with a little word of advice or enjoy the new display made by the energetic blooms – whatever you prefer.Coleus are often thought of as shady foliage specimens that brighten up the dark corners of the garden.

Start taking cuttings from them in early spring, and you'll be enjoying lots of colorful plants all summer.Whether you garden in sun or shade, Sun Coleus will add easy, nonstop color to your borders and containers!for her photo of 'Meandering Linda'.

Today, in much the same way, new varieties fromfrom cuttings are continually ongoing in the hope of finding a new sport suitable for sale and/or adding something new to a collection.

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Bringing those wonderful leaf colors (that last all season) into the sun has given gardeners a whole new palate to work with. Please scroll down to the form below. As evidenced by the increasing number of varieties available at garden centers and in mail...

First, choose a healthy stem. Keep the flat in a warm location. The stems will also root in moist sand. The varieties with more red pigment in the leaves are the most sun tolerant.There is ample information and help available at all Dave's Garden forums;...

How does the passion for gardening take hold and follow us throughout our lives? The coleus were always in a hanging basket above the others and always, always, there were some on the kitchen windowsill.

Plants should be brought indoors before heating systems are turned on and if the air is hot and dry, humidity can be provided from a thrift store bought humidifier placed in the room.Since the trailers are the bushiest they will also providean abundance...

Some varieties can tolerate more sun and there are actually ‘sun coleus' that thrive in brighter conditions. They are a perennial, after all.New gardeners and gardeners on a budget should give coleus a chance if they have a bit of shade.

Farmers grow this drought tolerant species with little care and investment.In the U.S., without significant research and scientific evidence, many claims are unsubstantiated and use has been limited.

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