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Planting Coleus In A Container

July 6, 2018 by Ina Wrobel

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Tips For Planting Coleus In A Container For The Shade Garden

This container garden will brighten up a shaded area in your porch or garden with coleus and different kind of shade-loving plants.

Beginning of July is not too late to plant more flowers or even trees if you would like to have more color in your yard. But with most planting method, generally, the best time to plant is when the day cooler and the sun are not scorching hot to prevent planting shock.

  • Planting Coleus In A Pot

There is a bit different if you are building a container garden because you can do it in a shady place and keep the container there for a few days until it ready for the final spot.

Creating a container garden is not difficult at all. You can customize the plant arrangement as you like for the theme.

  • Variegated Coleus

You can choose a mix and match, patriotic color theme, sun-loving container, shade-loving container, tropical, spring, fall, succulents, there are unlimited choices.

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The best thing with the container garden is you can move it around the yard or porch anytime. Or by the end of the season, you can even prepare it to bring the container garden indoor to extend the growing season.

  • Fringe Coleus

My front porch is on partial shade about five hours sun in the afternoon, so I create the container garden for the shade-loving plant only.

This time I plant coleus, known as a mint family but it grows mostly for their colorful foliage. Its bloom resembled a spearmint flower, but the leaves are more outstanding especially for the shade.

Preparing Container And Soil For Coleus

If you use the same pot as the previous season, sterilize it first by washing it with soap, scrub it and rinse it thoroughly with water. You can spray it with bleach diluted with water.

  • Chartreuse Coleus

Fill up the container with potting soil about half full, put the coleus on top of the potting soil, make sure the bottom of the plant one inch below the top of the container, then fill it up with more soil.

Coleus love moist and well-draining area, water the plant when the soil is dry on the top and keep it moist. Fertilize it with an all-purpose fertilizer. I put some cow manure on potting soil, and that is usually enough for this plant.

  • Bicolor Coleus

Like what I mentioned above, coleus is best for the shade. The color is brighter if it only gets a few hours of sun. When it grows in full sun, coleus got sun scorch easily, and the color is washed out.

Coleus Companion Plants

Coleus has beautiful color foliage from maroon, red, pink, chartreuse, brown, yellow and also variegated one mixed between several colors on one plant.

  • Hosta And Coleus In A Pot

What to plant with coleus in a container? You can grow coleus as companion planting with other plants. The choice is endless.

  • For the shade-loving plant, choose hosta, fuchsia, fern, begonia, impatiens, sweet potato vine, coral bells.
  • For mix and match color, combine coleus with million bells, petunia, bacopa, lobelia, marigold, daisy, basically any flowering plants is an excellent choice.
  • For the dramatic looks, try planting coleus in the middle of the container and pair it with the trailing plants like creeping jenny, creeping charlie, bacopa, lobelia, ivy.
  • For a unique look, grow coleus with different texture plants like ornamental grass or daylily.
  • You can also grow coleus with the similar color plants only for a monochrome look.

Here I plant coleus with mini hosta for companion planting. This container garden is just an early stage. The container will look full within two weeks.

  • Chartreuse Hosta

I picked up four different coleus plants. All have different leave shape and colors.

  • Aerial View Of Coleus In A Pot

That is the unique thing about coleus. You don’t have to worry if it did not bloom because you can plant it for the foliage only.

How is your garden doing? What do you like the most when you are creating a container garden?

My favorite one is when I help my daughter to build her miniature garden, it is a rewarding thing to spend time together playing with nature.

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  1. Spadonyx

    July 7, 2018 at 10:33 am

    Good content and keep it up?

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  2. Spadonyx

    July 7, 2018 at 10:34 am

    Good content and keep it up

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 8, 2018 at 10:30 am

      Thank you

      Reply
  3. Nicole

    July 10, 2018 at 9:09 am

    I love how your container gardens look! I struggle when putting together my own though, it’s so overwhelming when I go to the plant store and there are so many beautiful options to pick from. This post is perfect for me, it gives me a list and what my end result will look like. Thank you so much!!

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 11, 2018 at 4:56 pm

      Thank you, I find my self overwhelm too with the plant choices at the garden center, it is mostly because I want all, lol. There is certainly no limited choice for creating a container garden. All plants will looks good if we give them the extra care they need.

      Reply
  4. Ada

    July 10, 2018 at 11:46 am

    Omg, I would LOVE to do this, but it’s just been so HOT in MD lately… plus, plant shock???? Whoa. I know plants wilt when they don’t get enough water, but I had no clue they could go into “shock”… I’mma be looking more into that.

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 11, 2018 at 4:52 pm

      Yup, I got lots of plant shock, when I did not get them ready for being outside in their final spot, some sun scorch, sudden wilting, dried up, or completely done before even replanted them, lol. It is totally preventable, but it happen!

      Reply
  5. Marja

    July 10, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    I am not into flowers myself (yet!) but I will show this to my mom, she is crazy about it ?

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 11, 2018 at 4:46 pm

      Hehe, thank you, I hope your mom like this plant too!

      Reply
  6. olivia

    July 10, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    My dad loves gardening so this will be so useful for him! I’ll have to forward this to him. Great post!

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 11, 2018 at 4:45 pm

      Thank you for forwarding this post, I hope he like it too!

      Reply
  7. Keith E Ashwood

    July 11, 2018 at 2:44 am

    I never knew you could plant this late in the summer. You learn something new all the time.

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 11, 2018 at 4:43 pm

      There is never too late for planting, I actually plant new thing up to early fall!

      Reply
  8. stacey

    July 11, 2018 at 3:15 am

    Love Planting and being out in the Garden! One of my favourite things to do, especially outside of the house..I think personally its important to teach individuals about how plants grow, and then from paddock to shop.

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 11, 2018 at 4:42 pm

      Yes, same here. Gardening always become one of many ways for me to relax and my kids love to learn this too!

      Reply
  9. Carlise Wynne

    July 11, 2018 at 4:49 pm

    I love Coleus. I plant them all around my mailbox and they are amazing until September! So easy, and stunning! Great idea with the container

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    • Crafty For Home

      July 11, 2018 at 5:12 pm

      Me too, this plant is practically low care but beautiful!

      Reply

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