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Coleus

purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
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Just seen this on FB , is it a real colour or photoshopped.  Also if real is it house plant or outside summer plant?
love the colour. I had red ones this year, a lovely pop of colour in the beds.🙂
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  • AstroAstro Posts: 433
    I thought they were bogus myself but be cool if they are legit. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I think those colours have been ‘enhanced’ ... there are coleus with string blue/purple markings but not, to the best of my knowledge, quite that ‘vibrant’.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The seeds for these will be advertised  from some fake company in China. 
    They are colourful but not like that.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I was suspicious as this year there was the two tone green, yellow/green,  and what I had green/red . They do make lovely foliage plants. 
  • AstroAstro Posts: 433
    Yeah I think they are really nice plants, they are the first plant I purchased from a school jumble sale in the 80s as a kid.  Slugs snails enjoy them too unfortunately 😏
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Dovefromabove said:
    I think those colours have been ‘enhanced’ ... there are coleus with string blue/purple markings but not, to the best of my knowledge, quite that ‘vibrant’.
    “... string...” 🤯
    flippin’ autocorrect ..... should be ‘striking’ 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    given the purple tones of the wooden bench, I'd say fake.
    Devon.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    👌👍
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I agree with @Hostafan1 so have tried to reset the colour balance and have 'unenhanced' the photo ;)  I expect it would look more like this:
    but still a good streak of purple.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I would avoid seeds from China. Plenty of fancy coleus seeds in the UK.
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