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 ...

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.

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 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.

If you don’t have a garden, no problem, they 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.

Bring them in. If your coleus is in a pot, just bring that pot indoors for the winter. Place it in a sunny window or under a grow light. Before you bring pots in, be sure to check them for bugs ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have long "summers" in the South that can start in mid-spring. "Summer annuals" are often planted in April, and by late ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.