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 a genus of plants that includes a broad, stunning selecting of plants with gorgeous colorful foliage. Here's how to save your favorites for next year.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The excitement for spring planting is building to a feverish pitch, and many are wondering what they can do to add more pop to their landscapes. The answer just may be ColorBlaze coleus, and I am not ...

Bleeding Heart is a sweet addition to shady gardens, with pink or white heart-shaped flowers that dangle from arching stems.

Joellen Dimond plants Coleus, Pentas and Vinca. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond demonstrates how to plant Coleus, ...

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 ...

Summer color does not have to be restricted to flowers; a plant’s foliage can be just as colorful and last all season long. A good example is coleus. Velveteen coleus (Solenostemon scutellariodies, ...

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 ...

False cypress is a beautiful evergreen that grows well in many landscapes. Make the most of this tree by planting it with one ...