Coleus, Coleus Everywhere

I think my favorite thing to do with plants is propagate new ones. I was the same way with fish when I had a fish tank in my bedroom as a little girl. I loved for the fish to have babies - lots and lots of little babies. Of course the live births were the best, because you could count down the days before the little ones would arrive, and there was always this building excitement. Then you got to watch them grow and change and take on their adult colors.

So now that I have plants, it's plant-babies that I love. I take cuttings from anything and everything, and I stick them in bud vases with water. Just about every window sill in the house has these little vases with my cuttings. (I've found that pretty shot glasses work too).

The easiest thing in the world to root must be coleus, as these things will grow their roots in just a few days! I keep having to cut my huge coleus in my porch planters back, and all the pieces I cut off go in my vases for rooting. By the end of the week, I'll plant them in a flower bed or porch planter. I'm going to have coleus everywhere. Good thing I love them so much! The photo on the right is of a group of coleus that I just planted after rooting them.