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 ...

While coleus can be considered low-maintenance plants that can fill borders and pots with color, they are very temperature-sensitive. For this reason, they are often grown as part-shade annuals, ...

The AgCenter prizes the Henna coleus for its fringed leaves, gold, chartreuse, and burgundy coloration, bushy habit and heat tolerance. It makes a great summer bedding plant when higher ...

On that day, he traced the history from Java and went on to talk about Burpee in the 1890s when there was a 20-year span of high sales of coleus. This plant has square stems, which puts it into ...

I brought in some coleus last fall per your suggestion and am finding the new growth has lost a lot of the vibrant color it had in the garden last year. Is there something I need to do differently … ...

Coleus, popular for brightly colored, variegated leaves, can be an excellent addition to an indoor or outdoor garden. They come in varied yellows, greens, reds and some even in pinks ...

The National Gardening Bureau has declared 2015 as the Year of the Coleus, and the LSU AgCenter has named the Henna coleus a Louisiana Super Plant for this spring.

The coleus that made my must-have list of new varieties this spring is named Henna. I love its copper and chartreuse leaves with their burgundy serrated edges. I’ve had fun ...

In Georgia, plant them in deeply shady spots after mid-April and make sure they get water if it’s not raining much. These babies can handle a lot, but not dehydration. They’ll grow maybe a ...

Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida such as what durable, colorful plants to add to flower beds and care of white oleander, crape myrtles, pineapples, magnolia and vibur… ...

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 ...