I like to have at least one attractive plant, perhaps but not always, a blooming plant, to display on the kitchen table during the winter. There is just something about having a beautiful living plant ...

A big, colorful flower pot does much to brighten any deck or patio. That's where most people stop – typically with the familiar pot of red geraniums surrounding a spike plant next to the door. But as ...

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. Coleus is a ...

When you think of the incredible colors of a summer garden you think flowers, right? But exuberant color doesn’t always need dazzling flowers and shimmering summer sunshine. You can have displays of ...

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. But ...

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Q: Can I grow some of my coleus inside in a pot through the winter? I believe that they’ll do well inside. My mama and grandma said they would. Helen Hadden, Haralson County A: Coleus foliage is ...

OPINION: Coleus is cool again! Says who? Says me! Okay, I'm fibbing a little. This funky foliage plant has never been cool, in any sense of the word, for not only does this subtropical bedder like it ...