coleuses

Thanks for tips, I lost all my coleuses during the cold weather we had two weeks ago.

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The soil up here, about 2,500 feet above sea-level, though rock-laden is exceedingly rich, and the higher we go there is more bergamot, native indigo, with its underleaf dark blue, and lovely coleuses with red markings on their upper leaves, and crimson linings.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The two coleuses were doing well, but they were notoriously tough.

The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

The two coleuses were doing well, but they were notoriously tough.

The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

Pretentious gardens are now gayly decorated with glowing masses of pelargoniums and vincas, belts of rich coleuses and fiery alternantheras, patchwork of feverfew and mesembryanthemum, and scroll-work of house leeks, but amid this gay checkering it is wonderful how few flowers there are for cutting for bouquets.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

A patch of lusty pigweeds, growing and crowding in luxuriant abandon, may be a better and more worthy object of affection than a bed of coleuses in which every spark of life and spirit and individuality has been sheared out and suppressed.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

There is abundant opportunity along the borders for dropping in cannas, dahlias, hollyhocks, asters, geraniums, coleuses, and other brilliant plants.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

The soil up here, about 2,500 feet above sea-level, though rock - laden is exceedingly rich, and the higher we go there is more bergamot, native indigo, with its underleaf dark blue, and lovely coleuses with red markings on their upper leaves, and crimson linings.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881