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	Coleus This Texas tough plant will brighten your landscape.
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Coleus is making a comeback as an excellent landscape plant, especially in shady areas. It offers so many different colors of foliage that it just really stands out in a shady spot. From burgundy colors to orange, yellow, green, coleus is king of the landscape.

In fact, this variety is called Kong. It has beautiful leaves with splashes of red and magenta all the way into a green color.

Then there are smaller leaf types such as Duck's Foot coleus. It has leaves that look somewhat like a duck's foot, much smaller. It's a spreading type, comes in many different colors, another excellent choice. They do well in containers or in landscape beds.

Coleus has a tendency to bloom occasionally, and when it does, the leaves start to get smaller and the plant isn't as showy because these blooms are nothing to write home about. You simply pinch out the blooms to keep the plant compact, and it looks great.

While most coleus wants to be in the shade, we have a few varieties that do well in the sun such as Burgundy Sun. This is the variety that won the coveted Texas Superstar award. It does well in the brunt of full sun, either in a bed or in a container provided you give it an adequate amount of water.

With such a smorgasbord of colors to choose from, there's a coleus for every spot in your landscape.

With your common sense tip for brightening up the place with the comeback kid coleus, I'm Skip Richter.

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