Challenge!!

Angela Yeomans

I have just come back from travelling round rajasthan and had got some really ideas for a small selection in the middle of my garden.  I kept seeing this plant and loved the colours.  Can anyone help me and tell me what it's called please? 

Thanks 

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Joyce21

Angela - they come in various colours and leaf patterns.  Remove the flower when it appears.

Dovefromabove

One off the first plants I grew from seed as a child. Buy a pack of mixed seeds - you will get a huge variety of leaf colour and pattern. i used to keep ghe ones I liked best and sold or gave the others away. 

pinch out the growing tip and side shoots to produce sturdy bushy plants and don't allow them to flower. 

Take cuttings from your favourites to overwinter. 

Pete.8

Some coleus I grew in a pot in 2015 - 

Mr Fothergills have some good varieties

Joyce21

That's an impressive potful Pete.

Pete.8

Thanks Joyce.
They are beautiful plants. The ones above are Chocolate Covered Cherry and I'm going to get some Kong Rose too for this year. As you say, remove the flower bud soon as it appears and they they go on and on.
There comes a point when there are so many flower buds I give up, but that's usually very late in the season.

Easy to grow from seed

Joyce21

I've grown them as house plants but may try putting some out in a pot this year and see how they do up north.

Angela Yeomans

This is great,  I will definitely be trying this this summer.  Thank you everyone 

Posy

They are lovely, aren't they. Be warned, slugs like them very much, too, and if you don't protect them they won't last five minutes.

B3

Desperately unfashionable but I love them!!