I added some coleus plants to my garden this year and would like to use them again next year. Can I bring them inside over winter for next year? It is easy to overwinter coleus plants inside at home, ...

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 ...

There is no disguising the fact that coleus are astounding plants for adding bright foliage and interest in often trickier, shadier spots in the garden. With leaves in vivid shades of yellow, green, ...

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 ...

You may already know that I don't like many trees or shrubs with leaves that are purple, red, brown or any other color but green. Oddly, I feel differently about flowering annuals and perennials.

SOMERSET, N.J. — Coleus has had a long run in gardens and greenhouses since 19th-century explorers brought this garish, nettle-leafed plant back from Java to help satisfy the Victorian mania for ...

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 ...

Coleus is considered the “comeback kid” or more accurately, the comeback garden plant. When I was growing up, it was a popular plant but then you did not hear much about coleus for a long time. Today, ...

Each year the National Garden Bureau selects one annual, perennial and vegetable to showcase, with plants being chosen for their popularity, variety, ease of growth, wide adaptability and versatility.

Every spring and fall since 2009, the LSU AgCenter has issued a list of what it calls “Super Plants” for Louisiana gardens, plants that have been tested by the AgCenter and proven to adjust well to ...