My Coleus
Hi Bev,
Just a little FYI that won’t make a difference to your planting. The plant in the first picture with the pink in the middle of the leaves is not a coleus. They look like one but it is actually a Perilla. While shopping for my annuals this spring I found them marked properly at only one nursery. Everywhere else they were marked sun coleus. At one place I was asking for them and the owner said she had never heard of them. After I found them with the coleus I showed her what I had been talking about because I thought she would be interested. Well instead she got mad and kind of ignorant with me. She ended up looking it up on the internet and did apologize to me.
I have had them in my annual sun bed for a couple of years and just love them. The more sun the brighter the colors. And one of the things I really like about it is it blooms less then the coleus does. And just like the coleus they start very easy from cuttings. I just get a couple in the spring and make lots of babies. So give that beauty lots of sun and watch the color just shine.
Just a little FYI that won’t make a difference to your planting. The plant in the first picture with the pink in the middle of the leaves is not a coleus. They look like one but it is actually a Perilla. While shopping for my annuals this spring I found them marked properly at only one nursery. Everywhere else they were marked sun coleus. At one place I was asking for them and the owner said she had never heard of them. After I found them with the coleus I showed her what I had been talking about because I thought she would be interested. Well instead she got mad and kind of ignorant with me. She ended up looking it up on the internet and did apologize to me.
I have had them in my annual sun bed for a couple of years and just love them. The more sun the brighter the colors. And one of the things I really like about it is it blooms less then the coleus does. And just like the coleus they start very easy from cuttings. I just get a couple in the spring and make lots of babies. So give that beauty lots of sun and watch the color just shine.
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Sorry OC missed this when you posted it
Guess OC was just too busy looking after his Liliums. He loves Coleus and plants them every spring......THAK fo being Patient with OC ........
There may be snow in the garden, but there will always be eternal springtime in the heart of this old gardner - Saying of Old Coot
And what do you do with them over the winter ??
Mine always die back, but then never come up again !! OC
There may be snow in the garden, but there will always be eternal springtime in the heart of this old gardner - Saying of Old Coot
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I've noticed how easily the cuttings root but can you explain why the markings change on the cuttings?
Thanks!!
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I believe you might be talking about the outer coloring. As soon as you bring them indoors or give them less light the dark area around the bright pink turns back to pure green. I kind of like them that way.
I've noticed how easily the cuttings root but can you explain why the markings change on the cuttings?
Thanks!!
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I believe you might be talking about the outer coloring. As soon as you bring them indoors or give them less light the dark area around the bright pink turns back to pure green. I kind of like them that way.