I purchased a Coleus Plant from a local nursery, Cultivar: The Flume. It was mostly purple. After a year of rooting and growing cuttings from this plant I have a beautiful bumper crop of Hot Pink bushy Solenostemon, Coleus. I would love to start trading these. I really want a, Alternanthera, Party Time but would like to see if anyone has a Coleus Plant that I do not have. I have hundreds. :) Let me hear from you.
Very pretty maybe next week I can post and let you see what I have. You are in a great area for plants.
So it is true the one with the most Coleus wins.LOL
Do you have as many as Sugarweed?
Lavina
I just looked up Sugarweed. WOW! I do think we may have a good competion going here. I am new on this site and have never taken the time to count my Coleus. It would honestly take too long.I have not seen a Coleus that I do not have and I have many that are yet un-named. My front yard is a show stopper. People stop when they see me outside and ask how, where, when....... I don't let them see the backyard. HA!!!
Well maybe I need to come take a look in October when I go to Mom's .LOL
Have you posted on the Coleus forum. You are gonna love this site and we have plenty of enablers here.
Lavina
I think you should post some pictures under the Coleus chatter thread.LOL
Lavina
Pez may go into shock on the coleus forum. Every forum I go to has that one person who really went over the top for the last 20-30 years and has a huge varity of whatever plant. It's interesting but a little overwhelming at first.
I love hearing from you folks. LavinaMae, let me know when your coming down to my neck of the woods. I'll E-Mail you directions to my house.
CoreHHl, I am already overwhelmed. HA! As soon as I get a chance, I will be taking photo's of some of my off the wall hybrids to see who can identifiy them. As of yet I have not found a match. This is going to be fun. I hope the experts on this site will all pitch in and help.
Pez
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Pez, I couldn't help noticing the zone that you have under your name-zone 10a. Are you sure that is right? I looked up where your town is, and then looked at the zone map for SC and I think that your zone is 8b, which would make more sense as the only zone 10's on the east coast are down by Miami and the keys. I would hate for you to lose some plants in the winter thinking that they could stay outside
Pez I collect Pez dispensers also. Do you as I see you are a Pez lover.
I will be in your direction October the5th or 6th then comming back October the 12th.
Round-up Raleigh/Garner area September the 8th
Lavina
As far as zone 10a I'm as far east and south as you can get in SC and I'm a zone 9a at best.
I agree with the zone conversation. I looked it up on one of Dave's recommended sites and it said 10a. I didn't think it was right either. We have had a few freezes down here in the past. I brought all the fragile plants indoors and covered the rest. I'll look for another zone map and change it if it's wrong. Thanks for confirming my suspisions. :)
LavinaMae, bring something to trade with. I doubt you will want to leave empty handed. HA!!!
Sounds good as I will post pictures in a week or so as I have ordered a new computer and its supposed to be delivered this comming week. Kodak easy share took over my pictures and my adobe files and now I can't seem to get the stuff to work right,
Do you collect Pez dispensers?
Lavina
Pez: I wanna see a picture of that show-stopping front yard! You have to show us. :)
Deb
Lets see if I can get some of these pics up. I can't get the whole yard in the frame so I'll try to put up a couple of shots. Looks like I'll have to enter each one seperately.
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The pics are a couple months back and the plant thing is totally out of hand now. The fella who mows my lawn is starting to complain. HA!
Those flowers are beautiful, I have all my coleus in pots also, now I don't feel so bad.
I bet it is really beautiful now.
Its not long till October and I'll see you then.
Lavina
Pez: Wow! Love your front porch! That's neat the way you clusterd the pots under the tree. That's a nice way to fill in without trying to get thiings to grow among tree roots.
You've obviously put in alot of work!
Deb
Thanks Ladies. I hope I don't loose any of my babies in this God awful heat wave. I have to water 2 times a day to keep them all from wilting. Even the ones in the ground. You should see my water bill. :(
