Kong Coleus

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.

Great for planting in combinations with impatiens and begonias. This impressive variety performs well in planters and small space gardens in both sun and shade. Coleus, Chocolate Covered Cherry displays one of the best foliage patterns – the rose center...

Vigorous 26 inch plants retain their color and painterly pattern in sun or shade over a long season, ready to add cool fire to the middle border or large containers. Robust, disease-resistant plants, while thriving in heat and humidity, look their colorful...

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

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. Let this impressive beauty work some magic in your containers and shady beds. Coleus turns shady areas into kaleidoscopes of color. Compact and bushy, they need no pinching and resists flowering.

In 1941 HK numbered some 1.2 million inhabitants but after WWII and Japanese occupation this number was cut in half by 1945. Laurence and his brother Horace Kadoorie (both born and deceased in HK) worked as industrialists and hotel builders but were also...

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

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

This was indeed something I wanted not only to grow but to share its unusual beauty with others.is just one of a number of plants in the garden I love to grow. That being said, when I came across Under the Sea coleus plants, I was quite taken aback.

(10 C).If you enjoy growing coleus plants indoors, you can alwaystaken from a healthy, mature plant. Here are some tips to help with that:Water regularly to keep the soil slightly moist – never bone dry and never soggy.Feed the plant once every week...

Any of the Kong varieties show off their best attributes when sold in 4" pots or larger. Extra huge leaves that cover the well-branched plant habit make the Kong series an excellent choice for both container gardens and bedding.

Any of the Kong varieties show off their best attributes when sold in 4" pots or larger. Extra huge leaves that cover the well-branched plant habit make the Kong series an excellent choice for both container gardens and bedding.

Perhaps you know them as painted nettle or poor man's croton, depending on where you're located, but for many of us we simply know them as coleus plants (). You can also pinch the shoots of young coleus plants to produce bushier growth.Another factor...

Keep the soil moist as the seedlings grow. You will know it is rooted when you see new growth on the coleus cutting.Alternately, another method for how to root coleus cuttings is in water.

Then place the newly potted plants in a sunny location, such as a south- or southeast-facing window, and water only as needed. Dig up healthy plants in the fall (usually August), just before cold weather hits.

Is a fantastic plant for adding color to your garden or house. 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...

Leaving the flowers tends to cause less foliar development and leggier stems, probably because the plant is directing its energy to flower formation.You can pinch off the spikes just as they are forming and redirect that energy back into leaf formation...

But sun-tolerant coleus, as far as I know, are only available as plants. With a little lucky timing, you may be able to "rescue" plants being tossed to the curb at an office complex.

All of the Kong varieties show off their best attributes when sold in 4" pots or larger. Extra huge leaves that cover the well-branched plant habit make the Kong series an excellent choice for both container gardens and bedding.

Coleus in the garden should be given at least 12 inches of space in a slightly alkaline soil. Take cuttings in the fall, prior to a killing frost, and grow your Coleus as a house plant to brighten the winter months.

HK Disneyland opened in 2005, followed in 2006 by Ngong Ping 360, which we are going to use for our little excursion. The statue sits on a lotus platform and is surrounded by statues of six devas.

What can I say? I had to put a drill bit into the hole saw bit so the hole saw bit wouldn't "walk" all over the planter. Then I did the same thing a few inches above that, staggering each of the holes so that once planted, the sides would be covered.

Kowloon has one of the highest population rates with a mere 30,000 inhabitants per square kilometer--better watch your feet while strolling around! The climate is subtropical: winter is rather dry and cool (it was around 15°C while I was there) while...

Any of the Kong coleus varieties show off their best attributes when sold in 4" pots or larger. Extra huge leaves that cover the well-branched plant habit make the Kong coleus series an excellent choice for both container gardens and bedding.

If you wish, you can contact the recently-formedto let them know about your new coleus. Please scroll down to the form below. They do well in almost any kind of soil, but do best in moist, well-drained location that is fertile or that has been amended...