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Colossal Color from Coleus

How many of your clients would know that the versatile and varied coleus they love is related to mint? Both have a square stem! A powerhouse performer, there are coleus (Solenostemon scutellarioides) varieties suitable for both sun and shade, with trailing or upright habit and offering a multitude of leaf shapes and colors in both vegetative and seed-propagated forms. They are also late flowering, providing color longer into the Summer and Fall.

Colossal Color from Coleus

How many of your clients would know that the versatile and varied coleus they love is related to mint? Both have a square stem! A powerhouse performer, there are coleus (Solenostemon scutellarioides) varieties suitable for both sun and shade, with trailing or upright habit and offering a multitude of leaf shapes and colors in both vegetative and seed-propagated forms. They are also late flowering, providing color longer into the Summer and Fall.

Colossal Color from Coleus

How many of your clients would know that the versatile and varied coleus they love is related to mint? Both have a square stem! A powerhouse performer, there are coleus (Solenostemon scutellarioides) varieties suitable for both sun and shade, with trailing or upright habit and offering a multitude of leaf shapes and colors in both vegetative and seed-propagated forms. They are also late flowering, providing color longer into the Summer and Fall.

Vegetative Varieties for Sun and Shade
FlameThrower™ Salsa Verde Coleus
FlameThrower™ Chili Pepper Coleus
Mixed combo with FlameThrower™ Chili Pepper Coleus, geranium, lantana and calibrachoa
FlameThrower™ Chipotle Coleus

FlameThrower™ Series Coleus

This compact-to-medium coleus series offers bold foliage colors and uniquely shaped leaves. Equally at home in sun and shade, it makes a great accent plant in mixed containers with geraniums, lantana and calibrachoa. Salsa Verde adds a dynamic chartreuse shade to the FlameThrower series, a great color for large beds to give that 55 MPH color effect!

Height: 12 to 18 in. (30 to 46 cm)
Spread: 16 to 18 in. (41 to 46 cm)
Exposure: Sun, Shade

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Premium Vegetative Varieties

These varieties provide a striking assortment of colors, patterns and textures to meet your design needs, and all are low maintenance.

Vigorous Redhead displays bright, true-red leaves in the sun or shade, while Ruby Slipper offers a deep, dark red in a compact habit.

Campfire’s eye-catching orange foliage stays vibrant in the shade, while Inferno features more textured leaves that don’t fade in the sun.

Ruby Slipper, Campfire, Inferno, Electric Lime®,
Coleosaurus and Henna
Height: 14 to 28 in. (36 to 71 cm)
Spread: 14 to 24 in. (36 to 61 cm)
Exposure: Sun, Shade

Ruby Slipper Campfire Inferno Electric Lime® Coleosaurus Henna

Redhead, Trusty Rusty and French Quarter
Height: 18 to 36 in. (46 to 91 cm)
Spread: 16 to 28 in. (41 to 71 cm)
Exposure: Sun, Shade

Redhead Trusty Rusty French Quarter
Ruby Slipper Coleus
Inferno Coleus
Campfire Coleus
Electric Lime® Coleus
French Quarter Coleus
Trusty Rusty Coleus
Henna Coleus and Lucky™ Pot of Gold Lantana
Coleosaurus Coleus
Burgundy Wedding Train Coleus

Burgundy Wedding Train Coleus

Solenostemon hybrida

With its distinctive “wedding train” habit that easily trails up to three feet, Burgundy Wedding Train is one of the only trailing coleus on the market! It delivers glamour and excitement in larger baskets, street containers and landscapes. For a trailing coleus in the sun, this is the one!

Height: 10 to 12 in. (25 to 30 cm)
Spread: 24 to 36 in. (61 to 91 cm)
Exposure:  Sun, Sun

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Seed Propagated Varieties for Sun or Shade

Premium Sun Varieties
from Seed

Offering brilliant colors combined with bold patterns and textures, these varieties are best in full sun areas with higher humidity. The “flavors” of Chocolate Covered Cherry and Chocolate Mint are bolder in the shade. Crimson Gold, the most uniformly growing seed coleus, makes a great impression in formal gardens. The mottled burgundy and greens of Mighty Mosaic are striking when planted en masse. Pineapple Surprise has iridescent chartreuse and deep burgundy hearts splashed with chartreuse and green in a unique tricolor pattern.

Height: 12 to 26 in. (30 to 66 cm)
Spread: 10 to 22 in. (25 to 56 cm)
Exposure: Sun, Shade

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Chocolate Covered Cherry Coleus
Chocolate Mint Coleus
Crimson Gold Coleus
Mighty Mosaic Coleus
Seed Varieties for Shade
Kong® Lime Sprite Coleus
Kong® Mosaic Coleus
Kong® Red Coleus
Kong® Rose Coleus
Kong® Red and Rose Coleus

Kong® Coleus

Kong grows quickly, showing huge, exotic leaves in the shade. A big performer for large containers, super-sized mixed combos and landscapes.

Height: 18 to 20 in. (46 to 51 cm) 
Spread: 15 to 18 in. (38 to 46 cm)
Exposure: Partial, Full Shade

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Kong Jr.™ Coleus

Kong Jr. is great for partial to full-shade areas. With heart-shaped leaves that are 30% smaller than Kong’s, it is easier to ship, with less breakage and reduced loss. It adds unique colors and patterns that are not available in Kong, expanding the offering for shady areas.

Height: 18 to 24 in. (46 to 61 cm) 
Spread: 20 to 35 in. (51 to 89 cm)
Exposure: Partial, Full Shade

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Kong Jr.™ Rose Coleus
Kong Jr™ Scarlet Coleus
Kong Jr.™ Green Halo Coleus
Kong Jr.™ Lime Vein Coleus
Wizard® Golden Coleus
Wizard® Velvet Red Coleus
Wizard® Rose Coleus
Wizard® Mosaic Coleus
Wizard® Jade Coleus
Black Dragon Coleus

Wizard® Series and Black Dragon

The best value seed coleus on the market! An industry standard. Wizard Golden, Rose, and Jade are popular addtions to partial to full-shade gardens. Black Dragon’s purple-black leaves stand alone as the darkest-leaved seed coleus available.

Height: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm) 
Spread: 10 to 12 in. (25 to 30 cm)
Exposure: Partial, Full Shade

Wizard Black Dragon
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