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Coleus: Rainbow Foliage for Containers and Gardens | 
| Author: Ray Rogers
Publisher: Timber Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 97764
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 227
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0881928658
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.93396
EAN: 9780881928655
Publication Date: February 7, 2008
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Product Description
Coleus are no longer your grandmother's parlor plants. Favourites during the Victorian era, these plants have made a dramatic comeback with a dazzling variety of leaf color, shape, and pattern. No other plant is so easy to grow and propagate. Their sumptuous colors and tough constitution make coleus ideal both as attention-getting focal points and as complements to other foliage or flowering plants. In this lavishly illustrated volume, expert plantsman Ray Rogers offers equal parts of design inspiration and practical advice. The heart of this book is an encyclopedia that describes and evaluates more than 225 varieties.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Informative, great photos April 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been a coleus fanatic for years, and really enjoyed this book. Lots of good information here that I hadnt known, even though I've grown a great many coleus.
I only wish the book could have been twice as long and included a more comprehensive listing and photos of coleus (in all fairness, there are thousands of them and many are very similar). It would also have been nice to have included more photos of coleus combined with other plants-coleus fills out a pot/planting of flowering annuals beautifully if done well. It's not a talent I have but I have many photos of wonderful combinations done by others.
On the whole, this is a terrific book. Any coleus lover will enjoy it and learn from it.
 Coleus April 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A very thorough and logical presentation of "all you ever wanted to know about growing Coleus" without getting too collegiate. Sensational photography. I've always wanted to incorporate more Coleus in my California in-ground landscape and patio-pot settings...now I'm much more confident that I will be successful. This book is a must-have...so informative and such luscious photos...and reasonably priced. Show it off at your next "garden-club" meeting.
Wayne R. Martinson
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