I have started my coleus hunt for the summer. Some years I have a large selection some years no selection.

I refuse to pay the price of online stores and add shipping it is higher than I am willing to pay for a annual. I have never been able to keep a coleus through the winter so the online store cannot charge me perennial prices for annual.

If they charged 2-3 plus shipping they might would get my money but 5-6 I will not pay that price.

Okay I am done with my price rant. lol

nice picks!!

I see you have Sedona!

I like thos pix.
Sedona is in my garden this season .Nice dark coleus there too.

I have a sedona too... and the kiwi fern

I'm a coleus fan too. I have the original one that I started in fall, but that's all. It didn't look that good in winter, and I didn't start any more cuttings from that one. Now I wish I had.

Karen

Yes I sedona and kiwi fern. Those are the only two that had names.

I purchased Kiwi Fern 8 years ago and I have not found one as pretty as that one. It had red around between the purple and green.

Has anyone seen another fern that looks like Kiwi Fern but has a bright red in the mix? I think I still have a pic of it I have to look through my old files and see if I can find it. Maybe it was miss marked.

OK I found it. Is this familiar to anyone. It is not a good pic it was a bright purple in the center.

not off the top of my head.. must not have grown that one yet

Okay Allison, I wish I could find it again, I got so many compliments on it that year. It grew very large that was a piece I broke off to give to a friend because she was over my house and begged for some.

It was labeled Kiwi Fern but I have never had a KF with these colors since and I have looked. If you go to Rosy Dawn it is the color that they picture KF should look like but in fact when the plant you get does not have these colors now.

My thought is it has been breed over and over that it has lost the true colors it began with.

was thinking el brighto but wrong leaf shape.. you could be right about being breed out.. but I don't know every single one by sight.. the ones I grew over the years I can usually spot & remember.. maybe someone will come around and know what it is

I don't recognize it either.

Karen

I sent a message to Ray Rogers on facebook.. he might know

Thank you for putting out some ID requests. I would spend money to order this one I loved it so much. I wish I had a better pic. That was before I got my fancy DSLR.

Cinda, have you tried posting it on the ID forum? Those folks are good.

Karen

You are lucky people over there.
I am hunting here for coleus, but very hard to find something nice.

Best Wishes, Rob.

Okay I will give it a try at the ID forum. Thanks for the suggestion.

hope you can find something nice Rob... no mail order places there?

Only places are to find in UK, but prices are not friendly, very few varietys also
Some Germain friends will send me some cuttlings, but they are not named yet.
Find id is a nice job.
Building a nice collection makes more fun if done slowly.

Best Wishes, Rob.