Kitchen Garden Forum

All summer I've been growing an unnamed plant in my patio container which I bought from a garden centre. It has beetroot red leaves (the shape of beech leaves) and bright crimson stems which look spectacular in sunlight. It has no flowers and looks as if it should have been a houseplant. It's 18 inches high and 12 inches across and looks as if it isn't frost hardy so I've taken several cuttings which root quite easily as sideshoots develop lower down the stemps Can't find it mentioned in any books but I definitely want to grow it again next year, so many people have commented on it. (It not a coleus). Any ideas? Sorry I can't post a photo.

Primrose, are the leaves all one colour, ie. beetroot red all over, including the 'veins'?
Are the leaf edges smooth or sort of serrated like Beech. Leaves 'fleshy' or paper thin.

Upright or sprawling habit etc. etc.

Any sort of other info would give us HALF a chance of helping you !!

Dear Primrose, going by the photo it sounds as if it could be an ornamental Beet, maybe Bulls Blood.
There again it might not be.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

We will always get some sort of weather.

OH i cant see a photo are you like the emperors new clothes?