It's so easy. Poke a hole with a pencil, insert cutting!
Coleus combinations
I'm on it
Thanks
New spot for parents and children, west window
Terrific! You'll probably be taking cuttings in February and April of the same cuttings you're planting now.
Thanks- yes- thats about what I thought.
I will be better prepared for next year and have soil and pots ready by end of October. Its way too cold up here now for messing with dirt. I dont have a potting area and use the deck table.
My coleus bill will for this 09 season will be a reminder.
I just last month decided to not have as many flowers in containers and just plant coleus and one flower in a pot.
I am also going to plant trailers in the ground,the one I had did really well.
Coleus go so well with daylilies and the trailers really add a nice color harmony note. Here's Scaramouche with the coleus, Strawberry Drop.
I always learn so much from you.
I was wondering which perennials could use a coleus underplanting.
My DL bed is small by some standards only about ten plants, full sun is scarce and they have most of it.
I will definatly underplant with coleus.
Your Chocolate Cherry Dream and other dark red DL's will get companins.
Aw, thank you!
Coleus are excellent for picking up the slack left by perennials done blooming, like irises, or vacancies left when bulbs have bloomed and their leaves can safely be removed because you only need a small hole to plant the coleus.
Put photos of all your daylilies into one folder on your photo program and work from there to match them to the coleus you have or that you'll be trading for or buying.
While daylilies will give the most blooms if they have full sun it isn't the best for those with dark colors - the deep reds, wines, near blacks. They do better in part shade - so do I.
Malaysian Monarch is a great example. In full sun it washes out to a dreary color but here it is in dappled shade:
I have rooted all 3 of these, plus another coleus and irisine. All are on my kitchen window sill.
Is the light green one Lace Stockings?
Pirl I am lucky the DL's get bright shade and some afternoon sun.
I have been keeping pics of everything and all the gardens have monthly folders.
I will take your advise about matching some of the coleus's with DL flowers, good thing they are all in the warm reds.Might be a cream and pale yellow from you.
Sorry JoAnn, I don't know what it is. Picked it up end of season for a couple bucks.
Very nice, debilu! Nice color combo as well.
I think the one might be Fishnet Stockings: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/96130/
There may be a run on that one! (Love the name.)
Victor!
Here's what I came up with for the daylilies and coleus -
for the pink one
The brownish orange one -
And this one for Chocolate Cherry Dreams.
Nice combos. Best with long-blooming, DL's, no doubt.
It's good to have enough coleus so when the daylilies stop blooming there's still color in the same areas. Most daylilies don't exactly bloom all that profusely for long.
Pirl with my head hanging low... and my toe dragging across the floor like a child in trouble... yes i did take tons of cuttings ... but you know those cuttings need water from time to time... and with our halloween prep I kind of forgot to do that.... AND HERE COMES THE BIG OLE SIGH... I lost most of them
I do have some in water that I was planning on making new cuttings from.... so it's not a total loss.... but all the ones I took at your house and that you sent me.... are gone two trays of coleus and a tray of misc stuff I took from my yard... I am soooooo bummed out.... I am a bad momma
::::sniff sniff::::
You have an eye Pirl.
Those colors are great. I must revise my list.
I'll dmail you .
Thanks Pirl, I believe you and JoAnn are right.
And Pirl, love the color combos, and you have some gorgeous coleus there. I think I may have a new addiction.
I need something else to do so I dont get totally focused on seeds and plants.
My other new addiction is Poppies, the annual self sowing kind. I have spent a week recieving seeds from sed collecters and orders.I cant seem to get enough of them.
Any plant that grows without my digging a hole and bending below my toes to put it in the ground, is fine in my book.
Oh boy! We all now know of someone who'll get coal in their Christmas stocking and not coleus!
It's fun to just sit here and put things together on a photo program, debilu, - it's more work to actually put the plants in the ground and hope it all works out as we intended.
ge - I'd agree with you on poppies except for their wanton ways. I planted (sprinkled seed) in one area and the next year they had not only expanded far and wide but reverted to another color. In one garden I'm still ripping them out though the originals were planted 15 years ago! I'm a firm believer in "Grow where you are planted".
That reminds me of one of the darkest periods of my life 40 years ago.
Recovering from a divorce,I couldn't seem to find an interest that would be financially rewarding.
I was considering relocating with four daughtrs ,to another place as my X and the new wife were high on the social ladder(she was a news ancor for local TV)
I couldn't find a place where I could be free of them.
My grandmother talked me into staying and building a new life for myself.
Her phrase"Bloom where you are planted"
It's applicable to any situation.
Similar to the old Polish proverb: The last bag you pack is your troubles.
I love that phrase. It has saved me many times!
I meant the 'bloom' phrase. We cross-posted. I hadn't heard the 'troubles' phrase before.
thats a good one
Pirl, what are the coleus in the brownish orange in the upper right corner, and the upper left in the Chocolate Cherry? Both are beautiful.
Good morning Deb
That pis reads like this
upper left Kaleidoscope right DL.
lower left Laser Red right Alligator
All coleus are from Rosy dawn.
Pirl and I will get up early Monday to see their 2009 catalogue.
You'll be able to hear the screams from your house.
Heehee
Thanks JoAnn