My fellow authors might disagree, but it seems like sometimes it’s hard to come up with a suitable topic. This time, however, ...

Grows best in regions with cool summers. While it is called a smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria), this deciduous plant also grows as a large multi-stemmed shrub. It has a loose, spreading habit and ...

I am, however, partial to burgundy, especially in the garden. I have a bushy Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple' (also known as a smoke bush tree) in my front yard, which I love for its rich, dark red ...

Good choices include C Flame, whose oval, light green leaves turn brilliant orange-red in autumn, and C coggygria Royal Purple, grown for its purple foliage, whose leaves turn orange and red in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jane looks at key plants for a cool-temperate garden to get great autumn colour. For the most ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday attended a voluntary tree planting activity in Beijing and called for nationwide efforts in afforestation to jointly build a beautiful China. Xi, also general ...

Such autumn stalwarts as Japanese maple, crab apple, cotinus, oak leaf hydrangeas, enkianthus and berberis can happily spend their entire lives in (relatively roomy) pots and keep giving ...

Xi planted saplings of multiple types of trees, including Chinese pine, Cotinus coggygria, Yuanbao maple, cherry, flowering peach and platycladus orientalis. While planting trees, he also asked ...