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Jun 27, Smoke tree is an ornamental shrub to small tree that is grown for the bright, purple or yellow leaves and the spring flowers that mature and “puff” out as if they were clouds of smoke. Smoke trees tend to have a rangy, splayed growth habit. Pruning smoke trees annually will help make the plant more compact and strengthen the bushremover.barted Reading Time: 2 mins. Apr 06, How do you prune a royal purple smoke bush? Evaluate your smoke bush in late winter or early spring before new growth begins and select the strongest two to three Cut out all other trunks and shoots at the ground with loppers.

Prune away lower branches with loppers or. Aug 19, Editor Steve Aitken and JoAnn Viera of Tower Hill Botanic Garden show you how to prune smokebush. Apr 09, The leaves are greenish-purple, but still, a lovely plant that turns reddish-purple in the fall. It’s a standard, meaning trained to have a single trunk. How to Rejuvenate Prune Smokebush.

To rejuvenate prune smokebush, randomly cut the branches to just above the next growth node (where new stems grow) to lessen the canopy by about one bushremover.bars: 2. Evaluate your smoke bush in late winter or early spring before new growth begins and select the strongest two to three trunks, evenly spaced across the plant.

2 Cut out all other trunks and shoots. Nov 30, To shape your smoke bush plants into an informal hedge, the North Carolina State Extension recommends pruning the shrubs back hard every.

Nov 08, With the smoke bush. Cotinus coggygria.), each year there's a big decision to make: to cut or not to cut. Cutting it back sharply – not just light pruning but whacking it off about a foot Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

Smokebush, usually the purple leaf varieties, are often cut back yearly, just as you do with Buddleias and Callicarpa dichotoma. I have 'Golden Spirit', the only gold leaf one I know of, and it's a fairly narrow plant abut 8 feet tall.