The colorful Lava Rose Coleus Trailing

About The Lava Rose Coleus

With deep shades of red and purple, the trailing Lava Rose Coleus annual bedding plant makes a colorful annual for shade containers. This annual plant is a low growing, mounding and trailing annual plant that makes an ideal groundcover planted in shade. This coloeus can be planted in full sun, but I find that it does not perform as well as if planted in a part shade to shade location.

How To Grow the Lava Rose Coleus

Besides using it as a groundcover, this coleus is great as a trailing plant in shade located containers or baskets.

If planted as a groundcover it can spread up to 2 feet. If planted in containers, the Coleus grows into a dense and sturdy plant, making it an excellent companion to Begonias or Impatiens.

Don't forget to include this annual in window boxes and hanging baskets.

I plant mine in standing metal baskets loaded with Red Impatiens and Fuchsia. Unfortunately, the tips of a few of mine were frozen during the late frost this year (2009) and had to be cut down.

Not fussy about soil types, but does prefer a well drained soil. Fertilize the plants every two weeks.

Companion plants: Euphorbia, Magilla Purple Perilla or the New Guinea Impatiens.

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Lava Rose Coleus Features

• plant in full sun or a shady spot
• fetilize every 2 weeks if in a container, otherwise once a month
• grows 8" to 10" tall
• space 12" to 14" apart
• this is a foliage plant so no deadheading

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