Ooh I love about any Coleus! That one's especially cool, Patrick. There are over 2,000, it's like trying to ID a daylily, Begonia, or Hosta. Bakers Acres and Glasshouse Works, both in OH, propagate named cultivars also, though I think you'd have to confirm what each Bakers Acres one looks like from a list. I'd call it 'crime scene' if anyone asked me what its' moniker should be.
JoAnn, yours are fantastic too, and the combos they're in!!
I see a winter has passed between pics here. Did folks manage to over winter plants and/or cuttings of the cool ones from last year? I had tons to put out in spring, and luckily was slow to get the last bunch of them outside because there was 3 nights of freakishly late frost that killed the ones already put back out. Oh well, it left more propagation fun to be had, trying to fill all of the holes anyway with what was left, and other plants that don't mind being cuttings over and over. Why should Coleus have all of the fun playing in the ground for summer? I recommend Plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' for anyone who enjoys such folly, really a lot of reward for the tiny effort of snapping off a stem and sticking it in a shady spot in the ground, really is that easy.
This plant sprouted up last Oct so I snagged it and brought it inside. Definitely will be keeping a cutting of this. I thought the plant to the left of it (not visible in this pic) would get much bigger and make shade on it. Silly thing is in the sun from about 1 PM until 5-6 PM. Oops, but look at it coping with the few days when the sun is actually shining.
I just decimated most of the little Coleus in this pic after taking this pic to bring cuttings to pots where at least *I* can see them. Don't think these plants would have gotten big enough to make much of a show over here anyway, also so much smaller than last years' display at this time. The tomato cages keep our dog from walking around/laying in there, and the upright one has a Dahlia that's still not great this year 'cuz we're not having summer sun, just rain.
This tub usually has plants 3 feet high by now, but all of the rain, and missing sun this summer has resulted in lots of small plants. (If I'd known, I'd have planted Coleus in all of the full sun areas for this year. They'd be huge now.) All of the baskets here were one house plant when I started decorating this spring, and there was nothing in the tub, it's all cuttings.
This is the far-right pot from the pic above. It just takes a few pieces popping out of a pot, in my eye, to be 'wow.' That's Plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' with the dark leaves (that are purple on the bottom,) and the purple spiky flowers similar to Coleus but much bigger, sticking out the top to the left and right. I just stuck these cuttings here about a week ago. Hummingbirds love the flowers of both Coleus and Plectranthus. This tree-garden gets a lot of 'action.'
