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Message: [QUOTE="gata montes, post: 23019, member: 693"] I love Coleus too and nowadays with all the color choices and different foliage varieties available - often find I land up with many more than I planned on having - which is often a bit of a problem for me - as I have a very limited amount of shade in which to grow them and there are only a few varieties that can take a lot of sun. Where I live - like [COLOR=#000066]Pat [COLOR=#000000]has already mentioned - [/COLOR][/COLOR]although Coleus are annuals - we do manage to keep them going all year by overwintering the plants inside - as well as using this time to multiply them - by taking cuttings and rooting them ready for planting out in the spring. Although I have grown Coleus both from seed and by purchasing young plants - my choice would be to buy the young plants - as I've always been disappointed with the seeds - because however rare the variety they say it is on the packet or whatever color they say it is supposed to be - all the plants seem to turn into rather nondescript plants that bear no resemblance to the description on the seed packet :( However if I was planning to grow them from seed - now is when I would be sowing them - in plastic bottles outside that work like mini greenhouses. [/QUOTE]