Roma Street Parklands - Brisbane - Spectacle Garden Area

How lovely, Gorgeous colors

Hi Unicornjan - yes the colours in this part of the Parklands are incredible considering Brisbane has been suffering drought for many years with years of tight water restrictions.

Wow what lovely pctures........I want to enjoy all those colours!!!!

Louis - they are great colours aren't they? That red triangular shape and the orange one are both huge clumps of coleus - I was fascinated to see that. I've never seen coleus used as hedging like this before, but it certainly works.

I like coleus, especially the variety Kong. That's the one I usually get, because they are so big. If you like coleus Bernieh, go for Kong.

Benieh:

Wonderful photo! I like Coleus as a hedge, I've seen it used like this here...it is very impressive.

Louis, I agree with you the Coleus 'Kong' is a very large-leafed variety...however, it only lives 2 years max here then dies. The other varieties will live at least 4 years in the ground...until the terminites attack the woody stems.

Delonix these beautiful coleus hedges are dug up and replaced every 3 years apparently. You can probably notice at the right side of the photo there's a patch that was being planted when I was visiting.

Bernieh:

Yes, now that you mention it, I do notice it.

Yes, 3 or 4 years is about the life span of Coleus...after that they get attacked by to many bugs (mainly termites).