{"id":379,"date":"2013-08-07T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2013-08-03T01:15:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T08:15:18","slug":"smoke-bush-cotinus-coggygiria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/smoke-bush-cotinus-coggygiria\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke Bush &#8211; Cotinus coggygiria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic smoke from cigarettes but not from these smoke bushes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cotinus-coggia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-378\" title=\"cotinus-coggia\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cotinus-coggia-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cotinus-coggia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red leaved plants seem to be doing very well in this wet summer. I spotted this healthy shrub at Harlow Carr on a recent visit. The name smoke bush comes from the clouds of very fine, fluffy, grey flowers that appear on panicles in such profusion that it looks like a cloud of smoke.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This variety is probably Royal Purple both it and other Nocutts hybrids are easy to grow at home.<\/li>\n<li>Propagate by taking a spade to an existing shrub and chopping one piece out without lifting the plant. A sort of division in situ.<\/li>\n<li>They are deciduous shrubs and mine have a lax habit that probably needs a bit of pruning but I don&#8217;t want to sacrifice the flowers.<\/li>\n<li>The mature shrubs are a neat round shape.<\/li>\n<li>The leaves are also a neat round simple leaf<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>Other varieties include a tree Cotinus cobovatus called the American Smoke Tree<\/li>\n<li>Cotinus coggygria Golden Spirit has been bred to have yellow leaves and is protected by PBR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3984004063\/\" title=\"Cotinus by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3524\/3984004063_558d3d79f5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Cotinus\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic smoke from cigarettes but not from these smoke bushes. Red leaved plants seem to be doing very well in this wet summer. I spotted this healthy shrub at Harlow Carr on a recent visit. The name smoke bush comes from the clouds of very fine, fluffy, grey flowers that appear on panicles in such profusion that it looks like a cloud of smoke. This variety is probably Royal Purple both it and other Nocutts hybrids are easy to grow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/smoke-bush-cotinus-coggygiria\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}