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 ...

Every Texas garden needs a splash of color. For decades, the coleus family of annuals has provided that color, but only in the shade where the plants could be protected from the summer sun. But ...

I added some coleus plants to my garden this year and would like to use them again next year. Can I bring them inside over winter for next year? It is easy to overwinter coleus plants inside at home, ...

Find out why coleus plants are popular annuals for gardeners and why you should add this easy-care plant to your garden.

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 ...

You may already know that I don't like many trees or shrubs with leaves that are purple, red, brown or any other color but green. Oddly, I feel differently about flowering annuals and perennials.

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 ...

There is no disguising the fact that coleus are astounding plants for adding bright foliage and interest in often trickier, shadier spots in the garden. With leaves in vivid shades of yellow, green, ...

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 ...

Each year the National Garden Bureau selects one annual, perennial and vegetable to showcase, with plants being chosen for their popularity, variety, ease of growth, wide adaptability and versatility.

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 ...