The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com A very beary holiday on Dufossat Street The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - I am delighted by the custom iron gate, in a pattern that looks like reeds or bull rushes, flanked by colorful coleus plants and draped in an ...

The Bossy Gardener: Counting blessings, and teaching Toro who's boss! Grand Junction Free Press, CO - They look great with the coleus ! Some weeks, I get dahlias and chrysanthemums, or gladiolas and carnations, but florists dont order much more than they can ...

Prune perennials in late winter or early spring The Salem News, MA - Q: I brought in a lovely magenta and lime green coleus well over a month ago. While outside it flourished and was quite beautiful. ...

Donate your books Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - "you have a clue what this sexy new coleus looks like!" But if you stick with her for a sentence or two, she does paint vivid word pictures of the sultry ...

Easy care: Keep your cactus-family plants outside all winter Hilton Head Island Packet, SC - ... are almost all of the shade-grown varieties that can be grown here, plus select plants of ginger, coleus and coneflower that flower with little sun. ...

Holidays are for you, not for the garden San Bernardino Sun, CA - Make 4-6 inch cuttings of begonias, carnations, coleus , geraniums, impatiens, and others and place in a good porous soil mix. Keep the cuttings in a light, ...

Gardening by the book Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - A close-up of a coleus is as intricate and lovely as a stained glass window. Even a silver maple leaf nibbled by bugs is a work of art. ...

Garden Q&A The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com, NY - Dear Carol: I have a question about coleus . I have one that I moved farther from the window, and the color has faded. It is a cutting, and while it hasn't ...

The Bossy Gardener: Crowded by coleus - stop me before I cut again! Grand Junction Free Press, CO - By Judith Curtis-Mardon I had three large pots of coleus , some with huge leaves and all with a riotous array of colors. I spent the last six months rotating ...

North Texas e-News Winterize and add color to your winter garden North Texas e-News, TX - Select five-six inch tip cuttings of plants such as Coleus , Scented Geraniums or African Blue Basil. Strip the lower leaves from the cuttings and set them ... Keep Blanco Beautiful