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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Coleus Care Guide

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Coleus is a gorgeous type of ornamental plant with a very complicated naming history! In 1763, coleus was part of the Ocimum genus. Later, it was recognized as its own genus of plants. Part of the Lamiaceae family, the genus name Coleus was eventually retired and these plants were incorporated as part of the Plectranthus genus. They’ve also been classified as Solenostemon genus, which complicates things even more. But what is coleus? Sometimes called painted nettle, they are multi-hued, stunning plants grown for their leaves rather than flowers. Excellent for either container gardening or for adoring garden beds, they offer amazing color in partial shaded areas. Learn More: Coleus: How To Grow And Care For Plectranthus Scutellarioides Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? How is your garden growing? Hopefully it's still growing out there.

0:04.4

This is Kevin from the Epic Gardening podcast and today we're going to talk about

0:09.3

Kaleas. It's a massive family of plants and we can't talk about all of them. Let's be honest. There's too many. There are edibles. There's herbs. There's ornamentals. We're going to narrow in on the ornamentals today because if we were to go on and on it would be a never-ending podcast.

0:28.0

Honestly, there's probably someone out there whose entire life is just studying this type of plant.

0:35.5

Now, what are some types of Kaleus

0:38.1

that you might want to grow?

0:40.1

Of course, there are many,

0:41.3

but I'm gonna cover some of the most popular cultivars that are out there right now

0:46.1

just as a way to wet your appetite when you're out at the store you can say hey do you have this one, do you have this one?

0:52.6

Can I order this one?

0:53.6

And so let's go ahead and talk about some of those right now.

0:56.4

The first one is going to be called Wizard.

0:58.4

Wizard, there are multiple varieties that actually fall under this designation.

1:03.2

And so the most popular ones you're going to see are Wizard Jade,

1:08.0

Wizard Rose, Wizard Velvet Red.

1:10.6

Most of them are different in their color combinations which is a little confusing

1:16.0

but you can you can tell by the name after Wizards so Jade obviously is going to have a

1:20.4

bit of a green color Rose is going to have these bright red interiors to the leaves.

1:25.9

And so Wizard as a cultivar has many different varieties, but it's a good one to try out.

1:31.6

Next you're going to look for volcano, also known as red velvet or festive dance. These

1:36.8

ones are really cool. They have edges that are bright green, but red is the entire rest of the leave is red. So just the frilly edges are this light,

1:50.8

light yellowish, light greenish color, otherwise it it's completely red so that's a very

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