Usually Debby buys a bunch of plants in early summer and plants them in pots on our patio. But this year because of her knee issues she didn't buy plants and figured she just would have a bunch of empty pots. That was not figuring on our coleus plants. They somehow seeded themselves in a number of pots and also in the lawn. Debby has found the tiny baby plants in the lawn, picked them up and put them in pots -- and the overall result is that we have an amazing coleus farm. They have an incredible variety of colors in the leaves -- green, green with red edges, red, red with green edges, light green, dark red, etc, etc. And a variety of leaf shapes. And now most of them are flowering -- big stalks of tiny flowers growing straight up.
I LOVE our coleus farm.
In the photo below on the left the flowers are volunteers as well. On the right these are three of the babies from the lawn. They were less than a half inch high when planted in the pot. Note also in the background on the left the trunks of two of the Oaks that shade our patio, which otherwise would be a frying pan in the afternoon, and on the right a glimpse of our vitex tree, unfortunately not currently flowering.
