coleus

Coleus provide boldly colored and textured foliage plants in all sizes from upright mounded to trailing habits. The old fashioned varieties make excellent bedding and foliage plants in the shade, and produce numerous purple spike flowers that should be deadheaded to continue productive growth. Newer varieties have been bred to tolerate full sun to full shade conditions, heat tolerance, and produce very little to no blooms. That means no deadheading or pruning needed, just awesome, compact growth! Use as a thriller/filler in any garden or mixed containers combined with begonias for the shade and petunias for the sun. They can be grown as an indoor houseplant too. Shop our select varieties of Coleus online.

Grow in sunny or shady areas, well-drained, amended soil. Feed with a slow release fertilizer, Osmocote® or Plant-tone®. Follow label instructions. Deadhead to keep a compact, neat habit. Mulch 2″ to suppress weeds, retain moisture and protect against extremes of soil temperature. This plant can cut back and wintered over indoors as a houseplant.