This year I did an impulse buy and instead of placing the plants in partial shade (as is the usual advice from deep South gardening gurus) I planted them in full sun, and the results have been great despite our drought and recent 100F+ heat wave:

Moral of the story - this ornamental can take a lot more sun than advertised.

This experience highlights the need for region-specific advice when growing tropicals/subtropicals.

I can hardly forgive myself for not saying before how much I like your planting. It's really very pretty, especially love the huge patch of PS! Don't recall seeing it used that way before, smashing!!!

May I ask, what is the tallest red-flowered plant at the back, left? The dark-leaf Cannas, nice - really love those.

I saved one potted plant from last year:

These are some cuttings saved from plants that were in the ground last year:

The red-flowered plant to the left of the cannas is Celosia "Indiana Giant". The giant cockscombs are mostly in the early stages of formation.

I've tried doing cuttings of Persian shield to hold indoors under lights over the winter, but they didn't do all that well, certainly less vigorous than coleus under similar conditions. Maybe I'll give it another shot this winter.

Eric, if you have windowsills, try cuttings in water in the windowsill. Potted plants brought indoors will drop most or even all of their leaves but should stay alive if not over/under watered. They don't mind going dormant (and all of my ground plants survived last winter though they died back to the ground) so I wouldn't bother with lights, just put near any window but north.