(Solenostemon 'Apocalypse') has maroon leaves with a contrasting yellowish-green edge. The deeply scalloped leaves grow on upright plants 16-24 inches tall. It grows best in full to medium shade.

For terrific spring and summer container gardens, you can't go wrong with these plants. Get inspired by our favorite potted ...

Filling your garden beds with hostas is one way to bring color into a shady garden, but this leafy plant does an even better ...

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: ...

The color of Henna coleus varies with the amount of light the plants receive. The top of the foliage is golden in full sun and more chartreuse brushed with burgundy when plants are grown in the shade.

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 ...

Q: I planted some coleus plants in container gardens and used a mixture of different things such as the small flowering petunias, geraniums and alyssum with the coleus. Everything seems to be doing ...

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, ...

There are lots of plants to grow for color in the shade in the summer. Here is some information about begonias, pentas, caladium, coleus and fire spike. The weather this spring and summer is a special ...

There is shade and then there is shade. And there is sun and then there is sun. This is a tautological lesson I continue to learn, and the most recent teacher has been some of the new coleus plants.

When considering what to plant in shady garden areas, home gardeners need to recognize that there are many kinds of shade: low, high, light, deep, dry, moist, morning and afternoon. Some plants ...