I have to many coleus outside that are going to eventually get frosted...Wondered if anyone wanted to trade cuttings one for one??? Don't know their names if that is important....Some are ruffled some are not.......
Sun Coleus
I would love to trade one for one. I only have about 5 kinds so couldn't do the coleus swap.
I am rooting some right now so if you want we could do a trade for five...
I also have chicken gizzard plant- Iresine herbstii. It looks lovely growing with the coleus and requires about the same conditions. Roots easily in water. I have the red "blood leaf" and a varigated one.
I am running outside now to break off the starts of the coleus! Thanks!
If you can locate names or provide pictures or links, I would be interested. I could give you a list of links with galleries of coleus photos, if you want to identify them. Actual pictures of your plants would be much preferred, though.
Were these coleuses bought individually or in pony packs or flats?
PlanterRik, I bought most of mine individually. I have looked on several sites for a couple of mine. Rik, I think you already have the tilt-a-whirl I have and the burgundy duckfoot.
I snitched a start from a friend of one that is very frilly and almost black. Any ideas?
Yes, I have many plants of Tilt-a-Whirl, since it is the best coleus ever, and I have Purple Ducksfoot, which is sometimes called Burgundy Ducksfoot (which is a better description of the color).
About the black one, is it solid black, with no other colors or is there another color anywhere on the leaf (like a narrow border or along the central vein)? Can you describe "frilly" a little more? Crenulated, with a sort of rounded-toothed edge? -- deeply crenulated? Highly textured surface? Does it tend to grow on a single main stalk or does it branch well naturally? Short or tall?
When someone asks about a black coleus, I usually think of Othello (not too tall, wide, roundish leaves, gently crenulated edge, well branched), Purple Emperor (large, deeply crenulated leaves, does not tend to branch readily, sometimes the youngest leaves are a lighter pinkish purple), or Dark Star, the darkest coleus (mid-sized, usually branches well, leaf edges are lightly serrated, surface is smooth with a satin sheen - at the right angle, the leaves can look like velvet).
If Othello and Purple Emperor weren't black, they'd be purple. If Dark Star weren't black, it would be burgundy. Does that make sense to you?
I love the dark ones; so, if anyone knows of other blacks, please recommend them.
The most popular series sold in packs is Wizard, which still includes some excellent coleus, though they tend to seed earlier and more insistently than other hybrids. It is nearly impossible (or completely impossible) to find pictures of the Wizard Series on the web, but several sites list the names and have text descriptions, thongh no one of them is complete.
KJ, would you like me to email you a list of sites with coleus galleries?
BTW, my comment asking for pictures or names was directed to Blue Poppy.
well I found the list that I had mailed for this spring and found the names....Not sure if I know one from the other on a couple of them though......Aurora, Hurricane, Pink Surprise, Tilt-A-Whirl, and Inky Fingers.....I also have a deep burgaundy that is ruffled and a large leafed one that is green with a hint of red...Really a lovely coleus and the stock gets big and bushy.....
I should of added that I bought the coleus individually and from Morning Star Farms in Oklahoma....Upon looking again at their site I can match the coleus with the names..Hope this helps PlanterRik....
do you have a link to that site bluepoppy??
They sound wonderful!
Hope this works...
mstarfarms.safeshopper.com/index.htm?783
That URL didn't work for me, but this should take you directly to his coleus page: http://mstarfarms.safeshopper.com/15/cat15.htm?8913
There are so many misidentifications that it makes it hard to look at the page. But, when you click on an individual coleus for the large picture, it is often captioned with "a.k.a." and then the name by which everyone else knows that coleus. It's as if he (Steve Dobbs, local horticultural celebrity) has knowingly made up "in-house" names for most of the coleus he carries.
In one case, he does the opposite -- he correctly captions Burgundy Ducksfoot, then the blow-up picture says "a.k.a. Catigny Royale" -- which couldn't be any further from Burgundy Ducksfoot than the one he is selling as Japanese Giant is from the real Japanese Giant.
Anyway, all that aside, Blue Poppy, I already have Aurora, Tilt-a-Whirl and Inky Fingers (those are correctly named on the site), and I don't recognize the other two from your descriptions. However, there are often interesting variations on known varieties; so it might be interesting to trade these anyway.
For example, is your Tilt-a-Whirl as red-orange as the one in the Morning Star picture? If so, I'd love to have it.
I'd also like to have "Hurricane" (New Hurricane, to everyone else, to distiguish it from the patented "Hurricane" series).
Email me, and I'll try to make a list of the coleuses I have from which I can take more cuttings (some have been as thoroughly harvested as they can stand) and the varieties of which I already have rooted cuttings growing. I think by now I have around 40 varieties, but I may only be able to offer a choice from half of them.
My tilt a whirl is not red nor is my Hurricane like the red one shown......