Shrub Purple Smoke Bush

Shrub purple smoke bush Cotinus coggygria royal purple this large shrub puts on a great show with the deep purple leaves turning rich red in autumn.

Shrub purple smoke bush. The multi stemmed plant can actually be grown as a larger shrub or even smaller tree. The royal horticultural society. A dwarf form of the beloved royal purple cultivar perfectly proportioned for smaller gardens. Redirected from purple smoke bush cotinus coggygria syn.

The fluffy pink plumes in summer really do look like clouds of smoke. Also changes colors with the seasons there are two main types of smoke bush or cotinus and i only grow the purple red. When it flowers the shrub takes on the appearance of being wreathed in smoke which accounts for its common name the smoke bush. More info your smoke bush will require little pruning other than to maintain its shape and to remove any dead diseased or damaged growth.

Forms a small rounded deciduous shrub with all of the color and interest of its larger cousin. Emerging rich maroon red in spring the leaves mature to deep wine purple in summer before turning redder in fall. Grow the smoke bush in a moderately fertile well drained soil in sun or partial shade plants are generally unfussy and a low maintenance choice of shrub for the garden. It s a popular garden plant in drier more arid regions of the united states since it s drought tolerant once established water conservation won t impact this hardy option.

Smoke bush is often used as a garden specimen thanks to its beautiful purple pink smokey plumes and the purple leaves found on some cultivars. Award winner cotinus coggygria royal purple smokebush is a bushy large deciduous shrub noted for its attractive foliage of rounded leaves. The leaves of this variety are almost transparent with the sun. Frothy plumes of pink flowers rise above the wine red foliage in the summer.

Rhus cotinus the european smoketree eurasian smoketree smoke tree smoke bush venetian sumach or dyer s sumach is a species of flowering plant in the family anacardiaceae native to a large area from southern europe east across central asia and the himalayas to northern china. Cotinus coggygria the smoke bush cotinus coggygria is an easy to grow deciduous shrub which has lovely coloured foliage often dark read and purple.