different variations of coloes (mayana)

COLEUS VARIETIES

• The handful of plantsmen still pretending to disdain COLEUS simply have not caught up with the Victorian gardeners! For those still uncomfortable with the "C" word, simply announce that you collect Solenostemon scutellarioides cultivars--keeping in touch with current nomenclature. Millenium fashion embraces brilliant color & delicate detail from shocking tattoos to detailed needlework. The Coleus & their Plectranthus kin allow many choices between these two extreme poles from the punk brash to the shyly subtle

COLEUS HYBRIDUS ALLIGATOR

• Congested Lohman critter not to be "seeya later"--rumpled wide liver toned chocolate leaves with guilded scaled violet and John Deere green brushings. Bizarre fasciation of stems may look like pulled licorice; like kelp or something evolving (devolving?) under the sea. For those who see Coleus collecting as an adventure.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS AMAZON

• Solid golden ochre leaves elaborately ruffled around quilted medallion centers-- looks like an absolutely mad basil plant bred on Mars. Upright sturdy habit; one of the very few ochre yellow color types holding up well in winter windows. Certainly more chill tolerant than most of the gold/ochre leaved hybrids.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS ANCIENT COLORS

• Wide pale rosy vanilla leaves with bright mint margins and lovely lilace veins and specklings. Originally this Frieling hybrid was distributed as 'Ancient Rune.'

COLEUS HYBRIDUS APOCALYPSE

• Yet more drama from Frieling: A big dark tower of wide thick substanced deep chocolate velour leaves (closely packed like a stack of shingles) widely flared with violet veins and with dramatic ginseng green cut margin. So far blooms abort (this is a good thing for garden designers); seems to tolerate fall chill far better than most. This has become a basic due to its resistence to wind.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS ATLAS

• Very large cupped leaves with flame patternd purple border. Pinks & violets with verdent green centers--but less contrast than the similar 'Dipt 'n Wine'; heavy substance makes this a natural for standards.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BIG CHIEF

• Heap big showy. In the Spring, wide yellow leaves with lacy purple veined central medallion slashed through the center with deep maroon, the flounced petticoat margins richly crennate. Summer color is darker. Note the photos. Similar to 'Tiger Lily' but keeps winter foliage better and far less likely to bloom mid-summer..

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BIG RED

• Erect plants cloaked in dusky red rose leaves, betraying no orange or purple (altho veins are violet) tones when in full sun, each scallop edged a solid John Deere green. This hybrid richly deserves its continued popularity--one of those reordered every season by the coleoholics

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BIPOLAR BIGOLLY

• A more highly toned 'Schizophrenia' with dustings of ocher and red at the center of the leaf fading to pale violets, rose read, and wheat white at the tips--all with random deep maroon dustings. Needs full sun to achieve effect.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BLACK CHERRY RIBBON

• Very current appeal with petite foliaged self branching selection perfect in many usese. Tight buns of diamond shaped wildly lobed mini leaves of blush pink shading to rose, banded chocolate and champagne. Ever so darling.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BLACK LACE

• Very frilled 'Cantigny Royale' sport forming petite tumbling mounds of frothy purple foliage developing a faint cabbage green edge in lower light; this excellent Charles Downer find seems to have developed an awkward alias of 'Duckfoot Midnight' in Florida trade. Renaming plagues the Coleus offerings nationwide. We are confident that this excellent hybrid prefers to achieve the effect of lace far more than becoming a quacker--in fact this is by far the strongest hyperlacy hybrid for exposed sites such as containers in windy areas..

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BLACK MAGIC

• Modestly statured upright habit with mahogany purple dragon leaves beautifuly outlined in avacado margined scallops, repeated with lime encircled central raised medalion. Very reliable; always popular sturdy grower (even though not very black!) whether used in bedding, urns, or a windowsill pot.One of the reliable ones with an on-going fan club.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BLACK NIGHT

• Widely fingered pine green leaves (somewhat fragile in substance) with purplish maroon designs surrounding the central raised medallion veined violet. A hopeful, not descriptive, name.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BLING BLING

• Vigorous progeny of 'David' with slashes of maroon, parchment pale lilac and even cantalope & apricot tones on an elaborately lobed leaf held on long elegant petiole to give a lacy fluttery effect. This Frieling hybrid successfully brings other nearby colors together and the excellent billowing habit makes it a natural in combination pots or even a hanging basket.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BLUSHER

• Very wide shimmery rose/maroon/scarlet leaves of rich texture; olive tipped crennated edges. Very wide damask red leaves dappled violet & crimson; congested habit, strong substance and a wide habit: absolutely gorgeous and remarkably tolerant of early fall chill.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BOMBSHELL

• A Frieling hybrid with 'Kong Mosaic' paternity--but unlike papa, this very wide leaved stunner displays very regular color bands and maintains year 'round foliage--but most importantly, does not form summer bloomspikes to mar a planting.. (NOT Baker's 'Blond Bombshell'). From the number of re-orders last season, we assume this is becoming a must-have favorite--certainly the biggest boldest golden form we offer.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BRONZE GOD

• Wide thick coppery mahogany leaves with bright green edge; strong colorful progeny of 'Mr. Wonderful.' ; typically develops a remarkable sheen as fall approaches.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS BURLESQUE

• Strongly statured Frieling hybrid with rich color presence: each deep blackish maroon leaf flaunts a central pale toned medallion and a slim lime toned crenate margin.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CAESAR

• Wide spreading habit; wide oval crimped leaves of rose red and lavender sprinkles ringed with guacomole green frills.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CALYPSO

• Easily grown, fast branching ferny critter with deeply fingered leaves of gold touched with lemon lime: gives a planting a bright golden ferny flouncy look--lovely. This Frieling hybrid may appear to be ever so delicate, but grows vigorously--and has quickly become on of our best resellers..

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CANTIGNY ROYALE

• Very tiny elaborately lobed mahogany maroon leaves tightly packed on muchbranched short toppling stems. Intensifies the similarly statured 'Purple Duckfoot,' 'Charlie McCarthy,' & 'India Frills' when planted as a group. From Cantigny Gardens in Wheaton, Il. The touchstone by which any new mini must be evaluated. Constantly reinvents itself, turning dusky green in shade, but turning a true licorice in full sun.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CARDINAL

• Dusky rose red leaves with wide lime crenations Heirloom type. Like the cardinals at the birdfeeder, this is deservedly popular because it is colorful and quite unabashed.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CATHY'S SUNSET

• Certainly the brightest and most highly skirted to date: the very bright lemon yellow leaves, each with a clever lime heart, are extremely flounced and skirted (enclosing the stem completely) with very ruffled crennations--far more fingered than 'Killer Gold' with a brighter yellow margin.. Soooooo Cooool.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CHARLIE MCCARTHY

• Totally darling; ultimate coleus cute. A Downer selection with even smaller leaves than the parent 'Duckfoot' with tiny mint green leaves (with tinsy purple tattoo if grown in full sun) massed on tumbling stems. Most compact form we've seen which needs no special pampering or veiled threats to flourish. Receives very high marks from growers in the deep south. (And litegardeners wax most enthusiatic about its performance under the tubes.)

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CHIRP

• Yellow saturated lime tones on dramatically frilled leaves with pale midribs and elaborately fingered margins, with basil and violet designs. Recent Frieling hybrid from the loins of 'Calypso.'

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CHOCOLATE BEAR PAW [BIG FOOT]

• Very showy frilled deeply fingered medallion leaves with deep yummy rosey purple tones accented with pink veins and bright creamy edged ruffles and flounces. This rates very low on the Macho scales--one look at these flounces will tell you it cannot remember even one football score!

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CHRISTMAS CANDY

• leaves randomly splashed with rose red, magenta, cream and deep green. The brightest leaf, making this our best seller on sight--and after offering this for many years, we still ship out more of this magnificent creature than any other Coleus hybrid.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS COCK OF THE WALK

• Wide ruffled, fluted leaves dappled like the forest canopy with rich creamy ochre and pale yellow veins; quite impressive on the upright wide spreading stout stems. Strong bedding plant living up to its name. Frieling hybrid now the supreme ochre. New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS COLLIN'S GOLD

• Pert small lime leaves with bright pastel lemon margins neatly scalloped; excellent bedding selection; very sun tolerant upright straw toned heavily branched reliable creature with excellent color in the winter conservatory. True: various others are gold while this is straw-lemon; but we did NOT name this. Very strong constitution for exposed difficult areas. Reliably holds winter foliage indoors unlike most in this color range.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS COPACETIC YELLOW

• Mid-sized wide, very pastel straw yellow leaves strewn with gold to basil flecks. Bakers Acres creation which will have staying power in the market. Sometimes stock is limited because we experience trouble wintering this hybrid.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CRAZY QUILT

• Maroon-red surface patched dark wine and ochre--splendid if trained as a low standard; excellent in tropical bedding. One of the original Coleus offerings in the old Country Hill Greenhouse catalogue (for which we grew): and still an excellent choice for continers, even keeping up a good appearance in the winter greenhouse.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CREAMY DREAMY

• Wide habit with much branching to create an amazing pale confection of soft apricot leaves with dark pink and violet dustings (in ful sun), ochers in shade. We trialed this Frieling.hybrid repeatedly as would seem too delicate for bedding--but it passes the full sun and stiff wind tests everytime. One of those always reordered by designers.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CRIMINAL BARBIE

• So very weird Gothik in appearence: a very naughty Coleus with narrow puckered leaves of jade green with maroon licorice and coppery lime highlights along the slim scaber leaves with tortured cut edges. Excellent for the miniature garden as remains petite while radiating serious attitude. We cannot tell whether this recent Frieling hybrid is popular for its name or for its quite distinct appearance.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS CURVACEOUS

• Very rumpled fluted leaves (echo of 'Snowflake' parentage) with a riot of lime, lemon and rosy purple splashings. New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DAPPLED DAWN

• Handsome low habit: tidy self-heading type. Small pale ochre to wasabi green sabre leaves with quite bright white central flames strikingly accented by the row of white gold dots along every margin.While sharing parallel colors, this Frieling hybrid is smaller statured and more wide in habit than the somewhat vertical 'Hue Dude.' Definitely a winner as a modest sized self branching pot plant, hanging basket subject, or component of an elegant urn or windowbox as is reluctant to bloom, but easy to grow--even in the winter greenhouse. Excellent also in a small hanging basket or windowbox as stems "relax" under the weight of the foliage.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DAREDEVIL

• Excellent habit for standards w/ multitudes of furled spear leaves with flared carmine & violet medallions impressed on bubbly yellow ochre; very flashy creature from Dale Huddleson, developing true red bands in full sun. Much more fastigate and more deeply toned than 'Redcoat'

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DARK FRILLS

• A sport of 'India Frills' selected by Charles Downer with a very dark dramatic center fingering.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DARK STAR

• The darkest of all the so-called black coleus we sell. Blackish purple wide leaves closely spaced on self branching ebony-violet stems. For the "Black Garden"; very flat foliage with only slight ruffling. Deservedly popular despite its somewhat squat slow growing nature. Not as tall nor as vigorous as the ruffly 'Othello.'

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DAVID

• Very dramatically fastigate much darker toned sport of 'Stormy Weather' with elongated vivid olive leaves richly splashed chocolate bronze. One of the best for standards and back of the border exclamation points.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DEFINITELY DIFFERENT

• Dainty appearance; tough as nails. Much branched tuffets of closely held unusual vedigris green deeply fingered leaves with purpled rims and blushed veins. Quite lovely, especially as keeps good winter foliage. New for 2012

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DIANE'S GOLD

• An all golden ochre echo of 'Flirtin' Skirts' with pertly pinked, wildly furled rounded leaves enclosing the stout erect stems; darker veins appear in lower light. Named for Diane Gosser, this elegant beauty seems to evoke a golden full dress ball from Victorian times as each furled leaf gives as much flounce per ounce of any plant outside of the most outrageous furled Acalyphas with their pinking sheered margins--no photo can do it justice. (Very pale tones, so grow as a shady garden subject in the most intense areas of the South.)

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DIPT IN WINE

• Very wide billowy leaves of intense ochre with lower third colored rich crimson as if "dipped"; shared by Doug Ruhren, this candidate for standards has become a basic already in bold bedding schemes. Similar to 'Atlas' and hopelessly confused with it in the trade.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DOWNER'S RIBBONS

• Rich mahogany sabre leaves with bright pink centers, lime rims; forms tight rounded columnar mound of petite foliage held quite closely. As many customers order this every spring whether we list it or not--back by popular demand. New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DRAMA QUEEN

• Brilliant carmine leaves slashed with blood burgundy & plum and dashingly accented with a bold rim of acid ochre; a sport of 'Careless Love' selected and reselected by Ken Frieling. Certainly one of the best and most reliable container successes with richly saturated color emphasized by the elegant framing borders. Often a bit more popular than our stock plants can take so we have increased the cutting stock to support your demand for a dramatic wide branching low habit.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS DYING

• This Frieling hybrid of 'Dipt in Wine' forms a wide mound of beautiful oval leaves of soft carmine over basil green accented with cappuchino veins and purple violet splotches. Big stature and big color. New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS ELLA CINDERS

• Dark olive designs never repeating on the dusky purpled trim foliage--different light intensities and different levels of fertilizing bring out several tone ranges. Resultingly, no really accurate photo seems possible for this conservatory creature.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS EMILY

• Erect stems disappear under lacy petticoats of foliage: each fringed/frilled lemony ginger leaf centered with a pastel gold blotch. Still the touchstone by which all extremely ruffled hybrids must be measured.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS ETNA

• Ruffled rose blushed red leaves give velour "hints" framed by lima green & eggplant toned tips, typically curling into a wee ringlett; & a disturbingly magenta midvein flame; erect woody stalks makes this an amazing (potentiall five foot) standard. We originally offered this seldom branching horizontally challenged critter for its hybridizer as 'David Metzger's #12.'

COLEUS HYBRIDUS FANCY FREE

• Fabulous new Frieling hybrid with deeply crennate ruffled saturated creamy yellow leaves with pale maroon highlights & deep burgundy rims--set off by strong eggplant purple stems. Good wide habit; excellent vigor. Extremely popular.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS FANTASTIK

• "Optical Illusion" A busy intricate Persian carpet of color sequences of rose, sienna, chartreuse, pink (for starters) on petite deeply lobed (but flat) leaves creating an eye full of movement as the upright globe of busy foliage forms. Newly offered again in 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS FISHNET STOCKINGS

• Ample golden lime leaves with a striking mosaic of purple to mahognay veins. Will NOT be shipped until very warm conditions as drops both leaves and roots with any chill. Needs warm root zone temps. Our customers report this to be a disaster as a house plant. But it is so very very beautiful1

COLEUS HYBRIDUS FLIRTIN' SKIRTS

• Stout short stems engulfed by hemispherical furled scalloped & pinked leaves in rich designs--in full sun these rounded clasping leaves turn near-gold. Very unique distinctive prize from the Downers which never fails to suggest that Edward Scissorshands has been at this with his pinking sheers.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS FRIZZY YELLOW

• Tiny deeply lobed and fingered leaves form a froth of bright yellow with undertones of bronzy lime. Petite stature. Quite delicate--best as a conservatory subject.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS FUSION

• Very wide pastel yellow-lime leaves; central violet & maroon veins (unlike 'The Line' parent) bleed out to suffuse the center with pale violets. Good wide selfbranching habit make this a classic bedding & container performer. Downers' find.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS GLENNIS

• Rich chartreuse leaves with chocolate traceries & violet veins beautiful on the small wide leaves. Relilable, wide spreading (self-branching) subtle toned favorite--tolerating neglect with grace, and some early fall chill with indiference. Like 'Penny,' enhances the color of any companion planting. Has been in the top 10 most ordered Coleus for 15 years now.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS GLITTER GAL

• Demurely sized frilled and ruffled leaves of bright liquid green around a central vanilla colored flame, richly strewn with purpled carmine and sprinkled pink; habit and vigor makes this recent Frieling hybrid a great addition to its 'Victorian' parents (pollen parents, that is). An upright habit.

COEUS HYBRIDUS GOLDA

• Very broad golden yellow leaves of heavy substance on strong stems which reliably self-branch. Good choice for a yellow gold bedder, especially as the leaves seldom discolor as do many yellow types we have trialed over the years. We thank Peter Kopp for this one.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS GOLDEN COCKSCOMB

• Frieling hybrid with unique tostled vellum textured leaves of slightly folded elongated shapes of very bright yellow mottled ochre and olive. Bright accent. New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS GOODY GOODY

• Fantastically showy big wide leaves with the lime centers accented with plum purple mottled flouncy margins; changes with levels of light and temperatures--but alwyas dramatic.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS GRACE ANN

• Very short statured with pale pink & violet triangular leaves beautifully margined with frilled & toothed parsley green crennations overlaid with cheerful yellow lime and cider splashings; strong constitution, yet a delicate appearance--decidedly fastigate with lovely small foliage make this an excellent central point in a small mixed container.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

• Baker's "Grape Colored Coleus" not only provides the most dazzling true coolaid vivid solid color to any design or planting, but has never been observed to bloom: not ever! Strongly textured foliage.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HAINES

• Rose red flat wide lvs fade to pink flushed margins, made bold by slashes of garnet red darkening the centers Heirloom from Canada

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HALF MOON GOLD

• Another sport of 'Diane,' this selected by Downer for its distinctively coppery blush on the skirted golden leaves, with very gorgeous purple veins when grown in full sun.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HEIDI

• Small crennate leaves of rich rose with highlights of violet and chocolate with flecks of lime. Forms a tidy rounded habit. The basil spotted leaves are held quite horizontally in precise fussy ranks--"Terribly Tidy." New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HALLELUJAH

• Elongated extremely ruffled & crimped & whorled leaves of odd heather green, antic violet, pink & cayenne hoisted up on tall imposing stems. One of Metzger's best; but often in short supply as is most difficult to maintain during the winter.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HEART OF DARKNESS

• Strong wide habit; velveteen reddish black elongated large leaves with violet veins and forest green crennated rims; deep purple underleaf. Admirable for making any nearby gold foliaged or flowered plant twice as vivid.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HIT 'N' RUN

• Always an eyecatcher: very bright basil green with white centered leaves splashed maroon and violet. Excellent self branching upright habit makes this recent Frieling hybrid a natural for mixed containers as well as a bedding favorite.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HUE DUDE

• Upright rose blushed stems support thickly substanced leaves of rich mintgreen with yellow centers veined violet, but earning its name with the elaborately flounced margins with their maroon mascara edges. Recent Frieling hybrid much larger statured than the similarly colored 'Dappled Dawn.'.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS HURRICANE LOUISE

• Tall statured plant with feathery mint toned leaves with rose centers framed by rusty canberry halo; pale eye. Grown in sun: white heart ending in spear of pink, framed in rose fading to scalloped quince green borders; big statured self-branching favorite. A very Victorian look.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS INDIA FRILLS

• Marvelous compact mounds of tiny lacinate fingered ochre leaves with elaborate pink and purple designs--intricate, very delicate effect; a perfect very low carpeter popular in any bed or window pot adding a hot Mexican color palette. Original brought to us by H. Hansoti from Calcutta in the mid-seventies, thus the name.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS INKY FINGERS

• Much branched wide habit with amber & olive 'Duckfoot' type fingered wide leaves with central blood red & purple figuring. Wonderful in a giant basket or stiftly tumbling from an urn or windowbox. Considerably more tolerant of early fall chill than the bulk of its kith.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS INKY PINK

• Leaves like 'Crazy Quilt' but with modulations of coffee-violet and pinkish mahogany as modulating airbrushed tones, not designs. Very striking stout shrub

COLEUS HYBRIDUS JAPANESE GIANT

• Amazingly enormous leaves colored in transmutations of pink & violet tones edged with ochers on a ground base of burgundy mahagony, on strong erect square stems: perfect for a very showy standard. Showy violet blue flpwers mid-winter. This Tony Falco find (at the Japanese exhibit at the 1984 New York Flower Show) certainly has become a standart inclusion in any large urn design. Curiously, none of the many Japanese Coleus fanciers and producers who have visited and toured our nursery have recognized this as a clone grown in Japan.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS JOY RIDE

• Extraordinarily elongated petioles flaunt red and purplish cocoa toned out arched leaves, deeply ruffled with a central mottled medallion outlined in basil green--a green repeated on the deeply lobed tips; very distinctive appearance--now you can grow a feathered boa in your garden. A recent Frieling happenstance which, when grown in full sun, develops deeper crimsons and lilacs to compliment the violet veins. Quite showy.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS JUNKA BEAR

• A distincly widely cascading hybrid shared by Dave Junka with olive and basil green thick leaves with showy pink hued centers more white in winter light.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS JUPITER

• A very lacy fingered type with tiny furled finger leaves of deep blackish mahogany-purple edged avacado. Not as vigorous as many of the new hybrids, yet this old heirloom from England sill lends lacy charm. New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS KILLER KLOWN

• Fantastic towers of skirted whirled frilled foliage (overlapped like 'Tilt-a-Whirl') a rich bright yellow, chartreuse in shade, with slashes of burgundy. Excellent Doug Lohman creature. Standards done with this hybrid are truely killer.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS KILLER ROSE

• Fully skirted leaves of rosy bronze--perfect with the skirted 'Diane' or 'Flirtin'Skirts.' Dark dusky purple tones heightened by the (sometimes not apparent) pastel lime central flame. Dishy and dramatic self branching quite sturdy specimen.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS KINGWOOD TORCH

• The glowing giant. Progeny of 'Kingwood Rose' -- the central rose pink in each large leaf floods out nearly to the dark margins of chocolate maroon with lime tipped crennations. Odd ochre and avacodo stippling appears mid-winter. Marvelous rich tones of your grannie's favorite overstuffed sofa.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS KIWI FERN

• Very distinctive: slim fire fingered carmine red leaves with the tip of each elongated scallop rimmed bright ochre

COLEUS HYBRIDUS KIWI FRUIT

• Much overlooked gem. Wonderful wide lacy mound of dusky tea leaf green leaves with root beer purple colors, red blushed in full sun; each deeply lobed leaf splayed out into a many toed penguin foot--thus the "Fleur de Lis" plant. More erect than 'Purple Duckfoot'; perfect with 'India Frills'

COLEUS HYBRIDUS KRAKATOA

• A giant somber presence: bold mahogany purple velvety leaves of an elongated triangular outline with a hint of olive at tipped crennations. Truely giant potential if left undisturbed at the same location for several tropical season

COLEUS HYBRIDUS LIME FANTASY

• Bold lime saturated leaves frosted with red make a major statement in any outdoor summer planting--but in fall and winter (indoors) the colors become a lovely muted mauve with dusky plum centers as trendy as designer colors come! New for 2012 .

COLEUS HYBRIDUS LIME FRILL

• Beautiful chartreuse lime leaves with cream colored netting. Leaves are frilled and ruffled--much flounce per ounce; and easily grown.

COLEUS HYBRIDUS LITTLE ODDMENT

• Compact small mounds of tiny busy foliage in muted tomes. Perfect for your "Faerie Garden".

COLEUS HYBRIDUS LORD VOLDEMORT

• Perfect for training as a standard at a funeral home: The strong erect blackish stems are cloaked with closely held heavy spruce green leaves with a dark pecan to burgundy stain sinking into the deep veins. Very vigorous Frieling hybrid originally so trendy, now merely reliable.

COLEUS (PLECTRANTHUS) CANINUS FUZZY WUZZY

• This is a variegated form of the the famous repellant. Odoriferous succulent leaves, slightly viscous, on tumbling thick stems; attractive curosity--but when leaves are crushed, beware the "Eau de Firehydrant" fragrance. "Piss Off" or "Scardy Cat" plant reputed to keep cats (and even dogs) at bay. This does not work well here in our observations, but then, none of our cats seems particularly daunted by the canine tribe. Could be that the staff cats consider themselves to be feline rather than canine? This will be available in August.

COLEUS CANINUS

• Odoriferous succulent leaves, slightly viscous, on tumbling thick stems; attractive curosity--but when leaves are crushed, beware the "Eau de Firehydrant" fragrance. We received this some years ago from Sydney Botanic Gardens via California's Quail Botanical Garden and are amused that this rather modest plant is now being aggressively marketed as the "Piss Off" or "Scardy Cat" plant reputed to keep cats (and even dogs) at bay. This does not work well here in our observations, but then, none of our cats seems particularly daunted by the canine tribe. Could be that the staff cats consider themselves to be feline rather than canine?