If you find ash particles on your plants, don't panic. Smoke exposure can impact plants but the damage does not have to be ...

Plant in a location with well-drained soil. Size: The landscape tree will grow to be 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide when mature. Care: Provide the smoke tree with occasional watering during dry ...

Care Plant fall through spring in full sun or part shade. Smoke tree tolerates a wide range of soil types but prefers good drainage. These plants actually like poor, even rocky soils. Water ...

A: A smoke tree (Cotinus) is indeed a shrub and not a tree, though most of the ones you’ll see are trained to look like a tree with two or three branches acting as the “trunk” and the ...

Garden Doctors: Can smoke tree recover from bad pruning job? A reader wonders if her smoke tree is ruined after it was sheared into an unnatural shape.

The American smoke tree (Continus obovatus) is a small tree that is native to Tennessee, extends westward to Texas, and reaches a height of about 35 – 40 feet at maturity.

UC Davis researchers say long-term smoke exposure from massive wildfires lowers the energy reserves of orchard trees and can cut their nut production by half.

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 ...