u/coleusguy64

I noticed these morphology variants in a flat of coleus cultivar Moondust today. One has four leaves per node. One has three leaves per node, and one is fssciated.

I'm in North Carolina and came across him in my coleus nursery which is frequently irrigated. I usually see this type around my pond. Is it as leopard frog?

Yet again, when I started to prune my coleus, I got distracted by photographing them. I took too many pictures to include in just one post because Reddit limits you to twenty, I think. So I'll probably post them over four consecutive, daily posts. The varieties labeled with an FP are my own selections that I've made and evaluated over the years.

The cultivar of both of these is one of my own selections, which I named Green and Gold Finesse. It is especially good for making topiaries because it is vigorous, freely branching, and has relatively small leaves.

This is the second flower on the scape to look like this, and I think tomorrow's flower is going to be the same. I'm hoping that it's a stable mutation.

With our terrible drought, I'm not sure how many coleus I'll get bedded out this year. So I thought I'd share some photos of them in their nurseries.

I photographed my two large coleus topiaries today and wanted to share them here again as an update to my post a month ago. They are filling out nicely, but one of them lost two branches two days ago, so it reminded me to document them with some photographs before disaster strikes. A thunderstorm might cause them to drop more with added water weight, not to mention possible winds. This might be as "finished" as they'll ever be. I'm about 5'9" in height and the size reference in the last photo, and the pots are more than a foot tall.

These are all my own varieties photographed today. They are random seedlings that I have evaluated and propagated for years. Some for only a few years and some for many.

These are some of the cultivars that I have named. Some are new, and some I've had for years.

This has been a great season for bearded iris this year. While I'm past peak bloom, there's still a nice display, especially with the late and long blooming varieties.

This year's coleus topiary finally made it out of the greenhouse today and got repotted. I hope that they grow prettier of the next couple of months. But it occurred to me that I'd better photograph them now before a disaster strikes! They are very fragile. Typically, I only maintain them through the second growing season, and often, they fall apart before the end of it.