As well as purple this striking foliage plant comes in shades of pink, white, cream, yellow, and maroon, with several colors often mixed together on the same leaf. Coleus are easy to grow too ...

purple, and white. The flowers of many older coleus varieties are underwhelming, and leaving them on the plant takes energy it could use to add additional leaf growth. The plant may even become leggy.

These cool cultivars are easy to grow in the ground or containers, will grow in sun or shade, and are easy to propagate, too.

I have been in Gainesville during one of their annual spring plant sales where they had such a large selection of coleus that varied in leaf shape ... has a deep maroon-purple color, and it ...