My daughter was buying curtains and asked me to go along and I ended up with these I think they came from Boscovs and I was thrilled to get them. They really weren't expensive it was just that I needed 8 of them so the $$ added up.

OT alert......

Yes what angers me most is the way they are packaging items these days. I would rather they just raised the price. You use to get a pair of drapes now they are per panel. who needs one panel at a window.

Back on topic.....I love your coleus.

I have a few scattered around this work in progress bed as well.

Your tiling is gorgeous Holly. The big white butterfly bush is doing great.

Something is eating my coleus.





HELP!!!!

I think you may have a katydid or grasshopper around...they do that to some of my plants too...but if you see a shiny trail..then the snails or slugs did it.

They are in containers up off the rocks and pavement so am thinking it is not slugs, The second picture is a tiny bug I could not get a good picture of ....

Any insecticides? good for this problem?

white and fuzzy?.. mealy bug.. alcohol will get rid of them.. check under the leaves.. I was guessing slugs too

Not white and fuzzy. I looked and all I saw was a white knat sized bug.

no idea then.. sorry

Snails and slugs in my garden are quite persistent, ably climbing my containers that are sitting on marble rocks

There are ladybugs snacking on something

Temps are slowly dipping, but we still get warm and comfy daytime highs.

My Coleus Freckles is enjoying it, as much as I have been trimming its buds, it is just dead set to making its blooms, so letting it be, enjoying the show, till it lasts. Got some cuttings already, so if it wants to go, so be it.

I just dug quite a few of my Coleus up yesterday. They put on a lovely display for me this year. We did take cuttings of them all before digging them. I would have left them in place longer but I had a few changes to make to the bed before winter. Move a few lily bulbs and plant a small shrub.

yeah I am guessing any day now they will turn to mush

Waited a bit to long to get the Inky Fingers cuttings. They were toast before we got to them.

so sorry.. happens to the best of us

Just FYI ,about Inky Fingers cuttings.I have not been able to get successful cuttings.I bring them into the house and by 2 weeks thay arent doing well.
Not alll coleus varieties do well as cuttings,add Sedona to that list too.

good to know JoAnn... thanks

This is probably too late to help much this year but various caterpillars love to munch on Coleus leaves. The ones I see most often are plain bright green, hard to see to begin with, then made harder by the way they hide under the leaves, and on petioles. Their poo usually gives them away, look above it, around the chewed spots. I've found them on cuttings and plants brought inside many times.