Georgia Gold Medal Winners: 'Amazon' Coleus and Two Decades of Superior Plants

Your 'Amazon' plant is a 2000 Georgia Gold Medal winner—part of the Sun Coleus series including 'Solar Flare,' 'Red Ruffles,' and 'Purple Ducksfoot.' The program, sponsored by UGA and the green industry, promotes plants proven to thrive in Georgia's climate.

Past winners include 'David' and 'Robert Poore' phlox, 'Alice' oakleaf hydrangea, 'Little Gem' magnolia, 'Nova' pentas, Lenten rose, Mohawk viburnum, American yellowwood, 'Athens Gem' plectranthus, Japanese aster, bottlebrush buckeye, trident maple, blue fan flower, three-lobed coneflower, pink Chinese loropetalum, 'Yoshino' cryptomeria, 'Purple Wave' petunia, wild indigo, 'Hummingbird' clethra, multiple crapemyrtles, 'New Gold' lantana, blue anise sage, 'Annabelle' hydrangea, Athena elm, 'Bath's Pink' dianthus, 'Homestead Purple' verbena, 'Mount Airy' fothergilla, and Japanese plum yew.

'Amazon' coleus is a sun-loving summer annual. Plant outdoors after mid-April; meanwhile, root cuttings in water for more plants.