Easy care colourful foliage plants for Bribie homes.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Keep your house gardens colourful all year round.

During the cooler weather in the City of Moreton Bay region, both people and plants tend to hunker down, waiting for the warmer weather to return.

But take a closer look around the gardening community and you’ll see that there are plenty of colourful flowering plants to add a sparkle to your day. And for all year-round colour, consider some low maintenance feature foliage plants in the garden.

Coleus are a great choice for the home gardener searching for easy care plants best suited to Bribie Island’s coastal environment.

Originating from Africa and Eurasia (the northern hemisphere continents of Europe and Asia), there are many varieties of Coleus available at your local garden centres on the northside of Brisbane.

Grow Plant Nursery on Bribie Island stocks coleus plants and have just taken delivery of the stunning Coleus Spitfire and Coleus Frog’s Foot.

Both these varieties of Solenostemon Scutellariodes are compact low growing shrubs, best suited to semi-shaded areas of the home. Choose well-draining soil that has good moisture retaining properties. If planting in a garden bed, include good quality compost to help hold moisture or if planting in a planter or a hanging pot, use good quality potting mix, such as Katek potting mix, also stocked at Grow Plant Nursery. Keep the soil most but not waterlogged, as these plants don’t like their roots sitting in water.

When planted en masse, Coleus Frog’s Foot is perfect as a ground cover in the shade of your trees. If you are wanting a highlight plant for the semi-shaded parts of your garden, then these are the perfect plants for you.

Ongoing soil care is essential for healthy garden plants so Grow Plant Nursery uses and recommends the eco-friendly Grow Organically compete bio plant nutrient solution, the one-stop fertilizer for your garden. Grow Organically is a top-up probiotic for your garden’s soil, maintaining its live microbiology at the optimum level so that these healthy bugs digest the carbon and release the essential nutrients that your plants crave.

Buy at Grow Plant Nursery in Bongaree Village. Our garden centre is located at the rear of Village Deli Bongaree and Inner Room Bribie.