Coleus leaves come in every color but blue ... Their website is filled with history, growing information and pictures of every plant in their collection — it’s well worth visiting.

The coleus is a tropical plant and can certainly give a carnival ... Follow Norman Winter on Facebook @NormanWinterTheGardenGuy for more photos and garden inspiration. See more columns by Norman ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia.

And the plant family gene pool is wide. When the pictures of coleus accompanied with their names began, my pen could not scribble fast enough. Among his first hybrids were "Dappled Apple," "Holy ...

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.

It's enough to drive the gardener batty. That's why I recommend growing annual coleus in July, bringing the plants home from the nursery fully grown and in their glory. Plants are many things but ...

Allen Owings of the LSU AgCenter announced recently the two new Super Plants for the Spring of 2015: Henna coleus (a multi-cored version of the popular plant grown for its foliage) and Fireworks ...

Known for its amazing diversity, coleus, a popular bedding plant, brightens flowerbeds and containers throughout the long summers here in New Orleans. Over the past couple of decades, breeders and ...

Garden Variety is an occasional column about growing plants without grief. On the sunniest Deep South day, wisely planted under the dark green backdrop of a shady tree, a clump of coleus will ...