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Monday, June 22, 2009
Kong times 2

Not long ago I posted something about my new Kong coleus, which I planted in a large container with an orange canna. This prompted a reader ("pootershow") to write in to tell me I was dead wrong. "Pootershow" attached a link to educate me on what Kong coleus really looks like. I don't pretend to be an expert and Lord knows I make a lot of mistakes, but despite "pootershow's" apparent righteous certainty, I don't think this was one of them. As you can see, my coleus is growing apace, thanks to all the rain. Not knee-high, but getting there. The plant tag identifies this as a Kong coleus called 'Salmon pink.' Unless my normally reliable garden center sold me a mislabelled plant, I rest my case. And of that, readers take note, I am certain.

 

Posted by virginia smith @ 9:55 AM  Permalink | 1 comment
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Posted 10:31 PM, 06/22/2009
pootershow
I stand corrected. Kong is a Solenostemon scutellariodes variety with very large leaves.. and available in at least 6 colors, mine is 'Mosaic'. My mistake was the assumption of one single color variety. The last one is not labeled on this page, but it looks like it might be 'Salmon Pink'. Sorry if you think I came on like a Kong! ;-) http://www.parksbrothers.com/PlantPages/Coleus.kong.htm
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About Ginny Smith
Ginny Smith, a Philadelphia native, worked as a reporter at newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Ohio – with six short months at the end of the Bulletin tossed in – before coming back to Philadelphia in 1985 to work at the Inquirer. She was in the paper’s Montgomery County bureau briefly before moving to the City Desk, where she wrote about Center City and urban issues like homelessness. Ginny spent eight years after that as an editor, most recently as the paper’s City Editor and Pennsylvania Editor, before returning to reporting in 2004. She’s been gardening forever – and happily writing about it since 2006. In that short time, she’s won two silver medals of achievement from the national Garden Writers Association, most recently for a 2008 story on invasive plants.
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