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 ...

Royal Hawaiian Maui Gold is a named variety of Colocasia esculenta elephant ear ... or soft rush and ColorBlaze Mini Me Chartreuse coleus. I wanted to tone the riotous color down a notch and ...

Just as the right patterned fabric or a few throw pillows can make a whole room work, so functions coleus in the garden. It’s hard — impossible? — to think of another plant whose varieties ...

Large as life animals and fantastic creatures – including dinosaur succulent topiaries, a coleus peacock, moss-made dinosaurs, a giant buffalo, a dragonfly, and a shark – can now be found at ...

The plants that I am thinking of for this article are coleus and they are easy to grow and propagate. There are many coleus cultivars for sunny and/or partially shady locations. Because they ...

I love applying trendy colors (as in 2024's peach) to the garden, but a new coleus making its debut has made me start to think about a color that is so thrilling it goes so beyond trend that you ...

Question. Our coleus plants have developed cottony material on the underside of the leaves and stems. Will this harm the plants, as some appear to be dying? Answer. Regretfully you are now seeing ...