Dwarf Purple Smoke Bushes

The smoketree cotinus coggygria is a native bush across a vast area from southern europe to central china. Smoke bush is often used as an individual specimen plant and in larger landscapes it can be massed or planted as an informal screening hedge.

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Dwarf purple smoke bushes

The broadleaf is ideal to be placed in. Forms a small rounded deciduous shrub with all of the color and interest of its larger cousin. A dwarf form of the beloved royal purple cultivar perfectly proportioned for smaller gardens.

Unlike other smokebush it naturally has a rounded dwarf habit which means that finally every landscape has room for this unique plant. It exhibits dark reddish purple foliage from spring through summer. Purple smoke bush is dioecious meaning it has staminate and pistillate male and female flowers borne on different individuals.

In early summer large soft panicles of bloom appear that become the misty smoke that makes this such a popular landscape plant. History and origins of the royal purple smoke tree. 12 best dwarf evergreen shrubs.

Frothy plumes of pink flowers rise above the wine red foliage in the summer. It grows in open rocky places where its smoky heads create a dramatic effect in the wilderness. Oval leaves turn shades of bright orange coral and red in the fall.

What makes it most interesting is the clusters of buoyant flowers that surface giving the appearance of little puffs of smoke clouds. Unique purple foliage transforms to bright red high demand tree puts on an amazing show the royal purple smoke tree doesn t conform to the typical pastels or primary hues of spring. This rounded shrub has gorgeous vivid green foliage and is relatively easy to care.

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