Thankfully, there's a golden rule that the best container gardeners use to create brilliant and beautiful containers based on categorizing plants into one of three categories: 'fillers', 'spillers ...

Coleus plants are durable and easy to grow outside in containers, in addition to being popular houseplants. These vibrant shade-lovers, also known as painted or flame nettle, can really lift a ...

A few of the plants here are extremely versatile and can be used in a variety of light conditions. SunPatiens, sweet potato vine, and coleus can thrive in almost any spot, whether in sun, shade ...

Fillers are those smaller plants which tend to weave, spread and fill in open spaces in the container. Popular fillers include petunia, morning glory, coleus, ageratum and others.

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A good composition can easily be achieved by using a thriller, a filler and a spiller. That means choosing tall, showy plants to plant in the middle of the container, the thriller.

Coleus, sweet potato vine, snowstorm bacopa, thunbergia, fibrous begonia. For fresh plants, propagate tip cuttings in water or preferably in media such as vermiculite. When well-rooted, pot into 4 ...

You can also propagate more coleus for your garden this winter. Once there is enough new growth, use a sharp, clean knife or a pair of pruners to cut the stem just below a leaf node. Make about a ...

Coleus are easy to grow in containers on a porch or balcony. Be sure to choose a container that has excellent drainage and a potting mix that is fast draining.

Coleus can be used in garden beds, as an accent plant, as a way to fill post-spring voids in a plant border or grouped as an edging plant, but its primary value is as a container plant.

Coleus plants will be big at this year’s Lawn and Garden Show. … Also, little, frilly, colorful and funky. Wallace’s Garden Center, Bettendorf, is supplying plants for the show and among the ...

Homes & Gardens Plants that make showy containers Published: Apr. 29, 2009, 12:01 p.m.