If you're planning a low-maintenance coleus display in your garden, look for this colorful perennial variety that might attract birds to your garden.

Q–How do you get coleus, azalea, flowering maple, lantana, geranium, oleander and chrysanthemum to become trees with thick trunks? A–It`s mostly in the training. Most bushy plants and many vines can ...

Every Texas garden needs a splash of color. For decades, the coleus family of annuals has provided that color, but only in the shade where the plants could be protected from the summer sun. But ...