It’s what we all want: something that grows well anywhere in the yard or garden, looks terrific, and can stand the heat of our Gulf Coast summers. Gardening expert Bill Finch says the answer is coleus ...

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 ...

Whether tucked into shady garden beds or grown in sun-dappled containers, coleus plants are loved for their bold, colorful foliage. But when colder weather rolls in, many gardeners start to wonder: ...

When I was growing up on Brooklyn, my mother always had a plant growing near the living room window. The leaves had some color, but weren't very attractive. After a year or two, the plant would die ...

It's no wonder gardeners want to propagate coleus. This gorgeous plant is known for its colorful foliage, and you'll find stunning and unusual dark colors of coleus. Depending on where it's grown, ...

SOMERSET, N.J. — Coleus has had a long run in gardens and greenhouses since 19th-century explorers brought this garish, nettle-leafed plant back from Java to help satisfy the Victorian mania for ...

New coleus varieties--barely recognizable as the bedding plants popular in Victorian times--seem to just keep getting bigger, bolder and stronger. Wasabi is one of the newest kids on the block. A ...

Just as the right patterned fabric or a few throw pillows can make a whole room work, so functions coleus in the garden. It’s hard — impossible? — to think of another plant whose varieties display ...

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 ...

When Joe Ward, general manager at Southwood Landscape and Nursery, suggested coleus as the featured species for the 2018 trial beds at the Linnaeus Teaching Garden, my first thought was: Why? Coleus ...

PHILADELPHIA -- You gotta love a plant that comes in oddball varieties like Pistachio Nightmare, Kiwi Herman and Brooklyn Horror. It's kooky coleus, the old Victorian favorite that three years ago ...