Coleus 'Mystical Rose' – Colourful Foliage (2L Pot)

Coleus 'Mystical Rose' is grown for its leaves, soft pink with lime green edges, holding their colour from May until the first frost.

There are no flowers to wait for and none to deadhead. The plant makes a neat upright shape around 45cm each way and brings texture and strong colour to a shaded border, a statement container or a bright corner indoors. It is sold under three names, Coleus, Solenostemon and Plectranthus scutellarioides, and they are all the same plant.

Each plant arrives fully rooted in a 2L pot, grown peat-free in Yorkshire and already in full colour. It is not hardy at all, so the first frost ends it outdoors, but it will live on for years as a houseplant on a bright windowsill.

Cultural Information

• Common Name: Coleus, also sold as Solenostemon or Plectranthus scutellarioides
• Fully Grown Height and Spread: 45cm x 45cm
• Growth Habit: Upright, compact, bushy
• Perfect For: Shaded borders, patio pots, indoor containers
• Foliage: Multi-coloured, crinkled and textured
• Flowering Time: Grown for foliage, May to the first frost
• Planting Position: Partial to full shade outdoors, bright indirect light indoors, happy in pots and containers
• Hardiness: Not hardy at all; the first frost kills it outdoors
• Maintenance: Easy
• Seasonal Interest: Spring, summer and autumn
• Type: Tender perennial, grown as an annual outdoors or kept as a houseplant