Purple Smoke Shrub
Purple smoke shrub A hardy deciduous shrub with narrowly dark green leaves to 10cm 4 long turning red to purple to provide stunning autumn colour.
Purple smoke shrub. The hardiest of the purple leaved smoke bushes nordine has large pinkish blossoms and purplish red leaves that turn a rich green or orange yellow in fall. Its colored leaves are its signature since royal purple does not flower as reliably as the green leaved smoke bush varieties. Plant your smokebush in full sun. 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 one of those plants that can grow either as a tree or shrub. Proven winners 4 5 in. The fluffy pink plumes in summer really do look like clouds of smoke. Smokebush cotinus coggygria is a deciduous shrub with unique purple blooms that look like puffs of smoke.
The royal horticultural society. The burgundy leaves of the royal purple smokebush deepen through the summer turning a vibrant purple red in fall especially dramatic in full sun. Emerging rich maroon red in spring the leaves mature to deep wine purple in summer before turning redder in fall. Winecraft black smokebush cotinus live shrub rich purple to orange foliage cotprc1027800 the home depot winecraft black is the first proven winners smokebush and is unique due to its rounded dwarf habit.
But smoke bush isn t actually a flower at all. It grows 10 to 15 tall and makes an eye catching and unique addition to any garden. 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. Its leaves are a rich purple in spring but in summer s heat they turn a near black before bursting.
Winners for their vivid foliage autumnal purple hue and clusters of flowers that resemble plumes of smoke smoke bush cotinus coggygria is a favorite bloom both in the garden and in our vases. If you want to grow it as a smoke bush rather than a smoke tree yearly. Red leaved smoke bush with japanese painted fern a lovely combo.