This was grown from seed in January and is doing very well (Coleus) it is now the 23 June 2008 - I will leave it in the green house for the duration and will take cuttings from it and produce more - would be interested in any comments.

Love Coleus and this one has two great shades of red. The lime green edge is great. It would look great mixed in with Hosta.

I'm a great fan of Coleus, too. I'm finding that mine are really slow-growing this year, though. A work colleague last year said to me, disdainfully, "Don't tell me that you grow Fish 'n Chip Shop plants". This actually made me laugh, because she was right. I remember that, when I was a kid, any such place worth its salt (excuse the non-intended pun) did proudly display one or more of these. This is also the very first plant I grew from seed at school during a "Plants" project. My mum's windowsills, tables, etc. ended up laden with them, as I'd just cut bits off and re-root them in jars/cups of water.