Cotinus Coggygria Royal Purple Blüte

Appearing in late spring large feathery pink flower plumes cover the plant with fluffy hazy smoky puffs throughout summer. The midsummer feathery blooms are a sight to behold and will impress the neighbours.

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Cotinus coggygria royal purple blüte

There are also varieties of cotinus coggygria which have red leaves flame and grace both of which also have the rhs garden merit award. 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. The leaves appear almost translucent on a sunny day and change to marvellous copper tones by the autumn.

It grows best in usda hardiness zones 5 to 9 and is highly drought tolerant. Cotinus coggygria commonly known as smoketree is an upright loose spreading multi stemmed deciduous shrub that is native from southern europe to central china it typically matures over time to 10 15 tall and as wide. Other common names smoke tree royal purple.

Upright habit with blue green leaves tinted purple pink when young. Winecraft black is the first proven winners smokebush so you know it must be special. Emerging rich maroon red in spring the leaves mature to deep wine purple in summer before turning redder in fall.

Award winner cotinus coggygria royal purple smokebush is a bushy large deciduous shrub noted for its attractive foliage of rounded leaves. Smoke bush cotinus coggygria is a deciduous shrub that s also commonly known as royal purple smoke bush smokebush smoke tree and purple smoke tree. In early summer large soft panicles of bloom appear that become the misty smoke.

In spring round leaves emerge rich purple but as summer s heat comes on they turn a deep near black tone and finally light up in an array of reds and oranges in fall. Cotinus royal purple with its purple leaves creates contrast in the border as in the image right with alchemilla mollis lady s mantle making a good border combination. It gets its common name of smoketree or smokebush not from the tiny insignificant yellowish flowers which appear in branching terminal.

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