Thanks for the tip @Pete.8 🙂 The ones I grew this didn't reach the point of flowering. I had them indoors and they looked great ,then I decided to use them to fill a spot in the garden and the slugs/snails made short work of them. Hopefully I can protect them better up a height.
Seems they hold a lot of nostalgia for people, and are connected to many of their childhoods.
I don't plant them in the garden for that reason - the slugs and snails devour them in no time. I grow them in pots with 3 or 5 plants to a pot and put a few slug pellets around them. The flower spikes start to appear in summer and I remove them, but as the season progresses the number of flower spikes increases dramatically and by autumn I let nature take its course as they're generally looking a bit tatty by then. Cuttings are so easy, just snap a bit off and pop it in a glass of water during the summer months and roots appear in no time.
As you say they do prompt memories and I can remember one neighbour asking me if my father knew I was selling plants door-to-door - I said yes, it was his idea! I was only 5 or 6 years old
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@astro remember to remove any flower spikes that start appear on your coleus as once the flower, they die.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Seems they hold a lot of nostalgia for people, and are connected to many of their childhoods.
The flower spikes start to appear in summer and I remove them, but as the season progresses the number of flower spikes increases dramatically and by autumn I let nature take its course as they're generally looking a bit tatty by then. Cuttings are so easy, just snap a bit off and pop it in a glass of water during the summer months and roots appear in no time.
As you say they do prompt memories and I can remember one neighbour asking me if my father knew I was selling plants door-to-door - I said yes, it was his idea! I was only 5 or 6 years old
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.