Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: front yard shade tree - help please, 3 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Yeah! I want it all too!

Just put a cotinus \'Grace\' on my parkway. It balances the 14 foot miscanthus giganteous on the other end. When people grow smokebushes here, and I have seen a few, they put them in inconspicuous place. One person has three on their alley, and the other by the back of their yard near the garbage cans. I don\'t get it. This is a show horse! Prance that baby out!

First two pics in November, the third and fourth in June.

It\'s a cross between a European smokebush and an American smoke tree. A Brit names Peter Dummer hybridized it and named it after his wife Grace. What a tribute!