We have been growing Cotinus for many years at our farm in Willow Creek, CA.
It has been steadily growing in popularity, then, this all changed two weeks ago when our Grade 0 / 6-Foot (183 CM!) won a Best in Class Blue Ribbon at the SAF Convention in Palm Springs. Cotinus is now a star!
We grow the variety called “Royal Purple” which produces straight tall, leafy branches. You may be familiar cotinus, common name “Smoke Bush” (pronounced co-tine-us) but the bushes you see in a neighbor’s yard or at your local garden center are a garden variety of Cotinus and very different from our Royal Purple, which was actually bred for floral applications.
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