Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Cotinus damage, weird spring- need advice!, 1 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
I have a purple leafed cotinus coggyria (can't remember which variety) which I've regularly coppiced every spring for years. To just a couple inches from the ground. It's in a space where there's no room for a full sized tree. It regrows vigorously. It keeps it shrubby and looks great next planted alongside some gold-leafed hypericum calcycinum Brigadoon at it's base (pictured).
So if your tree's current form is discombobulated you can chop away to your heart's content next late winter and give it another chance to shape up and fly right.