Purple Smoke Bush

Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'

A large, rounded shrub prized above all for its deep wine-purple foliage, which takes on spectacular tones of flame red and orange as autumn advances, paired with billowing, smoke-like plumes of pinkish-grey flowers in summer. It provides one of the richest colour contrasts available in the shrub border, working beautifully alongside silver, blue, or chartreuse companions.