As I promised, here are pictures and descriptions of surviving and fallen Coleus. Hope you'll like them :)
First picture is Sedona. I like this one the most because it has tiny purple hairs on the leaves which contrasts wonderfully with the orange color pattern.
This is Blairs Witch
Chocolate Bear Paw. Not that healthy, but luckily we have still chocolate, teddy bears and I have paws ;)
Freckles
I discovered this sport on Freckles. Believe it or not, but it's a three leaved one :) ;)
Really great: the frilled one from a seed packet I got from California has survived the winter. That's good news because I have given away the remaining seeds ;)
India Frills
Kiwi fern, not doing very good unfortunately...
OT- Hello, is going OT indeed...
A red sport from Peters Wonder... this could be fun if that one makes it to adulthood.
Plum frost - being woried about the leaves which are curling down. Hope it's normal for this cultivar...
Red Coat
Rose Explosion (I think it is)
Saturn - This one can be considered lost because it sported into a completely different one. Looking for a new planet now...
Sparkler - not really sparkling if you ask me...
The Flume - looks like it has sported, but I'm not sure yet. Hope it's just because of the light intensity.
Forgot to label this one... guess it doesn't matter anywayz.
Tilt a Whirl. Or Twist and Twirl? Or both? Hope so...
A few Coleus plants which didn't made it.
From the left to the right: Religious Radish, Black Dragon, Tabasco and Alabama Sunset. Tabasco is the one I'm missing the most because I liked its color ;(
The hardy Coleus substitute (Lamium) made it ofcourse. The cold admiring plant couldn't be happier after a winter like the last one ;)
The purple one if dancing and jumping of joy too :)
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I'm replacing alot of dead Coleus by Heucheria now. They didn't showed even a single scratch after the long and hard freezes with snow last winter while their leaves can compete with the beautiful Coleus. This one is Peach
And this one is Stoplight
You did well this winter, congratulations.
Southern Maidenhair fern>
So weird, that color difference :s Maybe it has something to do with light intensity. Is your plant standing on a shady spot?
I have (or had) the same effect with Alabama Sunset which was completerly red when placed in sun. I wouldn't even be surprised if the red Peters Wonder (see above) is only because there's alot of sun getting to by batch of Coleus survivors.
I have placed all of them in full sun to kill the fungus on them because they're completely dampening off in the greenhouse while it's still freezing here at night.
Maybe the volcanic ashcloud from Iceland will affect my plants too, the whole garden and house was smelling like sulfur yesterday evening and this morning...
Few of my coleus can handle the sun here. Swiss Sunshine turns brown.
That Sedona gets a few hours of morning sun, in shade on the east side of the house. More sun, and wilt wilt wilt.
Alabama Sunset is ugly. Chartreuse new growth, with bleah mouldy brick red awful main color. In dappled shade. The dirt is a nicer color! I don't even have a photo! hahaha. Maybe I can try the brute in early morning sun again, I don't know... Odd place I live, hey?
What little information available on 'wild' coleus seems to indicate they are from higher elevations in tropical areas....also known as 'the cool tropics'. 500 to 1000 meters seems to be their home. 65 at night and 85 during the day is perfect.
This no longer exists>
My sedonas are different too.
One of my Coleus that I considered dead came back to life again!
It must be a zombie Coleus and now it's haunting me :s
It's the Alabama sunset that came back to life again. But in stead of Bunny I decided to name it Alabama SunRise :)
... and now the Religious Radish seems to have resurrected too! I would say: never throw away your Coleus plants, even when they look completely dead. It's just because I was to lazy to bring them to the garden container that I still have them :))
I'd love to have a cutting of plumb frost, and will trade my coleus. Any takers?
I would love to swap cuttings from my plum frost but if I only could send them overseas to the States...
It will cost me hundreds of dollars to get the proper export rights and phytosanitary certificates for sending and receiving outside the European union while it would only cost me a stamp if you lived in Europe.
It's also the reason why I'm doing so much efforts to overwinter them, because Coleus plants are nearly impossible to replace in my country as garden centers have only one or two cultivars of them in the best case :(
