Red Coleus with Madame Salleroi Geranium as a border would look well.
Scarlet Salvia would be very effective if yellow Coleus were used about it, but it would not please if surrounded with red Coleus, as the red of the plant and the red of the flower would not harmonize.
A Canna of rich, dark green would make a fine centre plant for a bed in which red Coleus served as a background.
Give the Coleusabout six inches of lee-way, also the Centaurea.
In combination with scarlet and yellow Coleus it is exceedingly effective, because of its strong color-contrast.
Fine effects are secured by using dark yellow Coleus or golden Pansies as an edging, these colors contrasting exquisitely with the dainty lavender-blue of the Ageratum.
With a roar like that of a maddened lion the Major bowed himself, caught his man in a mighty wrestler's grip and flung him broadcast into the coleus bed.
She had succeeded in making the Great Dane carry her on his back quite all the way around the circular coleus bed when the explosion took place.
Coleus is grown with the greatest ease from cuttings or slips.
Begonias will flourish in the shade; while the strong point about coleus is that of beauty of foliage.
Most plants prefer that the cuttings be made of the soft or growing wood, of which the "slips" of geraniums and coleus are examples.
The best plants of the geranium and the coleus and many window plants are those which are not more than one year old.
We regret that the writer did not give the names of those Coleus he so much admired as well as those which are "exceedingly ugly" and "entirely worthless.
When fully exposed to sunlight, it looks as if "on fire through all its length," and being much more stately than myself, might form the central figure in a group of Coleus or other plants with the greatest acceptance.
I think the Coleus adds much to the attraction of the border, but it is for the winter window-garden they are specially valuable.
There has been a remarkable progress in the development of the Coleus since the introduction of Blumei, but the two past years have been more distinguished than any previous ones by the originating of many new and beautiful hybrids.
Coleus and bouvardias are among the plants upon which mealy bugs are most often found.
The most popular bedding plants are coleus (particularly the yellow Golden Bedder) achyranthes, alternanthera, Centaurea gymnocarpa, and such succulent plants as the house leeks.
Salvias andcoleus are the tenderest of these plants.
In the same way heliotrope, salvia, coleus and other tender plants follow pansies, daisies, carnations, etc.
Even iresine (better known as Achyranthes Verschaffeltii) united with coleus and grew for a time.
A coleus cion was placed upon a tomato plant and was simply bound with raffia.
Vigorous coleus stocks, three months old, gave best results if cut to within two or three inches of the pot and all or nearly all the leaves removed from the stump.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coleus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
