Royal Purple Smoke Tree Cotinus Coggygria Royal Purple

Foliage holds its color all summer then turns scarlet red in autumn. We have 3 cotinus coggygria royal purple which are planted behind some macleaya cordata.

Annie S Gardening Corner April 2012

Royal purple smoke tree cotinus coggygria royal purple

Royal purple cotinus coggygria royal purple is a smoketree cultivar that is drought tolerant and deer resistant. It is quite normal then for the older leaves which tend to be shaded by the newer growth to lose some of their colour. 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.

As summer draws near the leaves turn purple almost black a nice contrast to the red veins and edging of the leaf margins. Cotinus gets its common names smoke bush or smoke tree from its panicles of spent flowers that appear like puffs of smoke around the plant. Award winner cotinus coggygria royal purple smokebush is a bushy large deciduous shrub noted for its attractive foliage of rounded leaves.

It is easy to see why great plant picks chose this shrub for their 2005 list. The smoketree cotinus coggygria is a native bush across a vast area from southern europe to central china. Once established water deeply occasionally.

It grows best in usda hardiness zones 5 to 9 and is highly drought tolerant. It gets its common name of smoketree or smokebush not from the tiny insignificant yellowish flowers which appear in branching terminal. It brightens the landscape with airy clusters of purple pink flowers.

Royal purple smoke tree smokebush cotinus coggygria 1 gallon the royal purple smoke tree is a magnificent large shrub or small tree that gets its name from the unique smoky reddish purple smoke like flower puffs that cover the tree in abundance throughout the summer. Other common names smoke tree royal purple. Genus cotinus are large deciduous shrubs or small trees with simple obovate leaves often colouring well in autumn and insignificant flowers borne in large plumy panicles in summer becoming colourful in fruit.

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