Noted at Palo Alto’s Gamble Garden earlier this week: Cotinus coggygyria. A handsome large shrub or small tree that I grew in my Columbus garden. A silhouette of the plant in Columbus, in a photo taken by Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky in 1998: (#1) From Wikipedia: Smoketree or Smoke bush (Cotinus [Gk. kotinos ‘wild olive tree’] … Continue reading Cotinus and the cousins of Cotinus