Cotinus Coggygria Uk

3 litre pot a deciduous shrub with soft deep reddish purple leaves that contrast clear pink wispy plumes in late summer giving it the name smoke bush. It s been grown in britain since 1656 and for more than three centuries it was known as rhus cotinus a name that is still in use.

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Cotinus coggygria uk

All cotinus need full sun and warmth to perform. In july and august it is festooned with fluffy plumes of purplish pink flowers that look like a haze of smoke. Smoke bush cotinus coggygriais a shapely rounded shrub or small tree grown for its summer interest and autumn colour.

This is an eye catchin atching specimen plant for a sunny shrub or mixed border. 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 details royal purple is a bushy large deciduous shrub to 5m with rounded deep purple leaves becoming redder in autumn. It s worth taking the time to place royal purple carefully for this reason.

Cotinus coggygria the smoke bush cotinus coggygria is an easy to grow deciduous shrub which has lovely coloured foliage often dark read and purple. A bushy deciduous shrub with the most attractive colour changing leaves. When it flowers the shrub takes on the appearance of being wreathed in smoke which accounts for its common name the smoke bush.

Its summer flowers give the appearance of a smoky haze over the branch tips hence its common name. Cotinus comes from the greek for wild olive kotinus. Flushes of smokey yellow flowers appear in summer.

Sales lines 01485 601143 sales directplants co uk. Emerging fresh green in the spring the leaves mature to a golden yellow in summer before maturing to a fiery red in the autumn. A bushy and shapely deciduous shrub or small tree clothed in dark burgundy leaves with glimmering ruby tints.

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