During the cold days of winter, gardeners like to read about plants and gardens. Why not give a garden book as a Holiday gift? Here is a new book that fits the bill. The idea behind Ray Rogers’ book ...

Bold, colorful and completely unfazed by the heat, these plants know how to put on a show. When everything else starts to ...

Whether tucked into shady garden beds or grown in sun-dappled containers, coleus plants are loved for their bold, colorful foliage. But when colder weather rolls in, many gardeners start to wonder: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adorable hummingbird sitting on a branch - Cavan Images/Getty Images Coleus is mainly grown for its colorful foliage and not ...

Coleus is the plant we think we know -- which is exactly why most people haven't caught up with its glamorous modern makeover. A tropical species known for its color-splashed foliage, it was last in ...

Coleus is one of my favorite plants to use for color in the landscape. Bold, colorful and completely unfazed by the heat, ...

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 ...

As if 2020 couldn’t have been more challenging, I have now run head on into a conundrum on coleus or to put it more succinctly a perplexity on pinching. First a little jaunt into my history with ...

Just like people, plants can re-invent themselves, and none more dramatically than coleus. Once regarded as purely a shade plant, the new generation of coleus thrive in sun or semi shade, with leaves ...

There is an inferno of color this spring coming from a coleus that has a lot going for it. The Inferno coleus is relatively new, but already it has heads turning especially when you consider that in ...

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 ...

In kindergarten, everyone in our class was given a coleus to take home. The leaves were velvety splats of moss green, cream and deep rose that looked like little botanical Rorshak tests. It turned out ...