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Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus Seeds
Vibrant lime accents for the shade
- Genus: Solenostemon
- Species: scutellarioides
- Variety: Giant Exhibition™ Limelight
- Item Form: (P) Pkt of 20 seeds
- Habit: Upright
- Seeds Per Pack: 20
- Plant Height: 12 in - 16 in
- Plant Width: 12 in - 15 in
- Additional Characteristics: Heirloom
- Bloom Color: Green
- Foliage Color: Chartreuse
- Light Requirements: Part Shade, Shade
- Soil Tolerance: Normal, loamy
- Uses: Beds, Ornamental, Outdoor
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These luscious chartreuse leaves are dazzling in the shade now, so just imagine how they looked to our Victorian forebears when they were first introduced. Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus is a delightful little plant, with a perfectly rounded habit and neat rosettes of serrated leaves. Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus looks tailor-made for a pot or basket, but also cools down the garden in beds, borders, and even as edging. Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus grows in a snap from seed (wait till you see the tiny scalloped leaves on new seedlings) and lasts and lasts.
Limelight is one of the Giant Exhibition Series, a group of heirloom coleus re-selected for better vigor, more uniform colors, and neater habit. These Coleus were at the heart of the "coleus craze" that swept England around the turn of the last century—they were grown and adored by all, their brilliantly-colored leaves offering unheard-of winter color indoors. Well, things haven't changed much—these gorgeously-sculpted 6- to 7-inch-long, 4-inch-wide leaves still make hearts flutter and gardens glow.
If you like Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus, you must try Palisandra, its velvety-black counterpart. Or you might just want to break down and get the entire mix of 11 varieties. Plants this good are hard to come by, and since you can start the seeds indoors any time of year, the more the merrier.
In the partly to fully shaded garden, Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus is a zinger of a color beside the airy plumes of astilbe and the frost-dusted Impatiens Shady Lady Blushing Beauties. In part shade, Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus complements the mahogany foliage of perennial Heuchera.
Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus germinates readily and grows eagerly. For bushier, fuller plants, keep the growing tips pinched. To extend the lush color into fall, remove any stray flower spikes that emerge—they take energy away from maintaining the gorgeous foliage, and the flowers are insignificant. If growing in the garden, sow about 12 inches apart. If growing indoors for houseplants, sow at any time, placing the young plants in a well-lit window.
Solenostemon Germination Information
Solenostemon is the botanical name for Coleus
How to Sow Solenostemon: - Best sown indoors 6-8 weeks before planting out or at any season for indoor use
- Sow at temperature of 70-75° with NO cover as light aids in germination
- Expect germination in 10-15 days
- It is not recommended to sow the seeds outdoors
How to Grow Solenostemon:
Transplanting: Transplant when there are at least two sets of true leaves
Spacing: Space 10-18 inches apart in full sun or light shade
Soil: Site in any good moist garden soil
Temperature: Site in bright light, provide warmth at 65° nights and up to 80° days Additional Care: Grown for its attractive foliage; the flowers detract from the good looks and should be removed. Keep well watered
Appearance and Use:
Grown as house and conservatory plants, used in containers and hanging baskets, and planted out in beds and borders. These upright, rounded plants grow from 6-36 inches tall, have square stems, and produce non-showy blue or lavender flowers in late summer. Grown for the showy foliage that comes in an imaginative array of variegated colors: chartreuse, green, white, bronze, gold, copper, yellow, pink, red, and purple. The leaf margins are smooth, fringed, toothed, wrinkled, ruffled, or deeply lobed
About Solenostemon:
Pronunciation: sol-e-no-stem’on sku-te-la’re-oy-dez
Lifecycle: Annual*
Origination: Iridaceae, native from British Columbia to California
Common Name: Coleus
*Grown as an annual, but plants will overwinter in Zones 10 and 11
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.
These luscious chartreuse leaves are dazzling in the shade now, so just imagine how they looked to our Victorian forebears when they were first introduced. Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus is a delightful little plant, with a perfectly rounded habit and neat rosettes of serrated leaves. Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus looks tailor-made for a pot or basket, but also cools down the garden in beds, borders, and even as edging. Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus grows in a snap from seed (wait till you see the tiny scalloped leaves on new seedlings) and lasts and lasts.
Limelight is one of the Giant Exhibition Series, a group of heirloom coleus re-selected for better vigor, more uniform colors, and neater habit. These Coleus were at the heart of the "coleus craze" that swept England around the turn of the last century—they were grown and adored by all, their brilliantly-colored leaves offering unheard-of winter color indoors. Well, things haven't changed much—these gorgeously-sculpted 6- to 7-inch-long, 4-inch-wide leaves still make hearts flutter and gardens glow.
If you like Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus, you must try Palisandra, its velvety-black counterpart. Or you might just want to break down and get the entire mix of 11 varieties. Plants this good are hard to come by, and since you can start the seeds indoors any time of year, the more the merrier.
In the partly to fully shaded garden, Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus is a zinger of a color beside the airy plumes of astilbe and the frost-dusted Impatiens Shady Lady Blushing Beauties. In part shade, Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus complements the mahogany foliage of perennial Heuchera.
Giant Exhibition™ Limelight Coleus germinates readily and grows eagerly. For bushier, fuller plants, keep the growing tips pinched. To extend the lush color into fall, remove any stray flower spikes that emerge—they take energy away from maintaining the gorgeous foliage, and the flowers are insignificant. If growing in the garden, sow about 12 inches apart. If growing indoors for houseplants, sow at any time, placing the young plants in a well-lit window.
Solenostemon Germination Information
Solenostemon is the botanical name for Coleus How to Sow Solenostemon: - Best sown indoors 6-8 weeks before planting out or at any season for indoor use
- Sow at temperature of 70-75° with NO cover as light aids in germination
- Expect germination in 10-15 days
- It is not recommended to sow the seeds outdoors
How to Grow Solenostemon:
Transplanting: Transplant when there are at least two sets of true leaves
Spacing: Space 10-18 inches apart in full sun or light shade
Soil: Site in any good moist garden soil
Temperature: Site in bright light, provide warmth at 65° nights and up to 80° days Additional Care: Grown for its attractive foliage; the flowers detract from the good looks and should be removed. Keep well watered
Appearance and Use:
Grown as house and conservatory plants, used in containers and hanging baskets, and planted out in beds and borders. These upright, rounded plants grow from 6-36 inches tall, have square stems, and produce non-showy blue or lavender flowers in late summer. Grown for the showy foliage that comes in an imaginative array of variegated colors: chartreuse, green, white, bronze, gold, copper, yellow, pink, red, and purple. The leaf margins are smooth, fringed, toothed, wrinkled, ruffled, or deeply lobed
About Solenostemon:
Pronunciation: sol-e-no-stem’on sku-te-la’re-oy-dez
Lifecycle: Annual*
Origination: Iridaceae, native from British Columbia to California
Common Name: Coleus
*Grown as an annual, but plants will overwinter in Zones 10 and 11
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.