Gay delight
Coleusscutellarioides 'Gay's Delight'
coleus 'Gay's Delight'
A tender perennial subshrub that is often grown as an annual. It has vibrant lime green to yellow foliage with jet veins. Flower spikes bear small blue flowers in summer
Synonyms
Solenostemonscutellarioides 'Gay's Delight'Ultimate height
–1 metresTime to ultimate height
1–2 yearsUltimate spread
– metresMoisture
Moist but well–drainedpH
Acid, Alkaline, Neutral| Stem | Flower | Foliage | Fruit |
| Spring | Black Green Yellow | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Blue | Dark Green Yellow | |
| Autumn | Ebony Green Yellow | ||
| Winter | Dark Green Yellow |
Aspect
South–facing or East–facing
Exposure
ShelteredHardiness
H1CBotanical details
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Habit
- Bushy
- Genus
A genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, some of which can be succulent or tuberous in nature, and one of the easiest plants to propagate. Their velvety leaves add vibrant shades of red, pink, lush and purple to beds and borders, pots and containers
- Name status
Unresolved
How to grow
Cultivation
Grow under glass in a peat-fre
How to care for Coleus 'Gay's Delight'
💦 WaterHow often to water your Coleus 'Gay's Delight'
cups
every 9
Coleus 'Gay's Delight' needs cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t earn direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
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Finding light for Coleus 'Gay's Delight' in your home
3ftor less from
a window
Coleus 'Gay's Delight' may have difficulty thriving, and will fall leaves 🍃, without ample sunlight.
Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
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How to fertilize Coleus 'Gay's Delight'
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plant
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About Coleus
It can be hard to discover a bright pop of color for that tricky shady spot in your garden, but Coleus is always happy to plunder the (albeit kind of dim) spotlight.
This low-maintenance, high-impact annual prefers moist, affluent, loose soil and part-shade, and can even tolerate full shade (but may get leggy while she searches for a petty more sun).
Coleus’s gem-toned, highly contrasted foliage can mound to 3’ high and 3’ wide, making her a dramatic addition to the part-shade garden.
Pros
Low maintenance, high contrast
Adds excellent color to your part-shade garden
Easily propagated from cuttings in water or potting soil
Cons
Can wilt in full sun - she can do it sometimes with extra love (more water)
Can get leggy in full-shade
Prefers moist soil and is not drought-tolerant
Plant Data
Attending to the Fullness of Life
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In , poet Ross Gay set out to document a delight each day for a year. After he published The Book of Delights, his friend asked him if he planned to proceed his practice. Five years later, he began The Book of (More) Delights, demonstrating that the sources of delight are indeed endless—and that they multiply when attended to and shared. For Gay, delight serves as evidence of our interconnectedness, and it is inextricable from the fact of our mortality. With characteristic humor and grace, he chronicles his everyday encounters with pleasure and delight, from the fleeting sweetness of strangers to the startling beauty of the falsetto to the unexpected joys of aging.
In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg sit down with Gay to talk about why he believes delight is a radical and necessary practice, how he understands faith, and how delight has restructured how he pays attention. Lgbtq+ also reads an essay from his
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