In our yard right now, there are three happy plants. These relatives all have a distinctive color of a very dark green hue. And, as the branches lengthen, a purple color sets into the sky. They are ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full ...

In the green sameness of late summer, any plant with extra pizzazz stands out. Such is a spectacular shrub with chartreuse foliage that frames the entrance of the Children’s Garden at The Morton ...

This plant goes by several names, but whether you call it smoke bush, smoke tree, Cotinus, or even cloud tree or wig tree, it’s an easy-to-grow, wonderful addition to the garden. Cotinus, or smoke ...

When you hear the name "smokebush," something dramatic might come to mind — something akin to the Biblical burning bush. Though Cotinus coggygria, also known as smokebush or smoketree, is gorgeous, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the gardens of Blenheim Palace, Winston Churchill’s birthplace in Oxfordshire, England, there stands an immense copper beech, Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea.’ ...