The "square stem" remark came out of left field from someone calling
themselves an "escapee". (How appropriate!) The remark isn't true at all.

BTW, square stems aren't limited to the mint family (Lamiaceae) and not all
the plants in that family have square stems either.


"Janice" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:50:34 -0500, "EBG"
wrote:

That's interesting....."anything with a square stem".

Dang, I must have missed a post or two as I didn't see from which
this reference to "square stems" came.

I'm guessing.. as I'd heard.. anything with a square stem is related
to the mint family?? Which must be big, because sage has a square
stem too..and coleus..of course cat MINT, and cat NIP, and monarda
..etc etc.

So did I guess close??? ;-)

Janice

I'll have to keep my eye out for that.

I love Coleus and that's something I didn't realize, that they do so well
in
partial sun. I had a couple of a deep red variety that I had in full sun
during the summer (they seemed to be ok with it), but I moved them inside
for the winter and have been taking cuttings here and there.....really
easy
to get new plants going. (I never knew).

When I had them inside, they were getting partial sun and doing really
well.....I wonder if they could even handle a
dim light inside situation? (Just through the winter?)

Does the color matter as to what varieties do better in lower light?
Mine
are a very deep burgundy red.