Is coleus a perennial that comes back every year? That depends on where you live and how you care for it. Whether tucked into shady garden beds or grown in sun-dappled containers, coleus plants are ...

If you're planning a low-maintenance coleus display in your garden, look for this colorful perennial variety that might attract birds to your garden.

Just as the right patterned fabric or a few throw pillows can make a whole room work, so functions coleus in the garden. It’s hard — impossible? — to think of another plant whose varieties display ...

When you think of the incredible colors of a summer garden you think flowers, right? But exuberant color doesn’t always need dazzling flowers and shimmering summer sunshine. You can have displays of ...

Garden Variety is an occasional column about growing plants without grief. On the sunniest Deep South day, wisely planted under the dark green backdrop of a shady tree, a clump of coleus will shimmer ...

Move over, impatiens, and make way for coleus. A decade or two ago, impatiens were the most widely planted shade-loving plant in the annual garden. But the downy mildew fungus quickly caused Impatiens ...