Smoke Bush. Credit: Shutterstock. For a tree-like smoke bush, prune away all the branches save for a central stem. Smoke bush is the more common name for Cotinus, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q • Every year my smoke bush gets the little “flowers,” but it never “smokes” — they just kind of shrivel up. Could it be it’s not getting enough sun? Smoke bush cultivars vary widely ...