Audubon Native Smoketree – #3 Container 2-3 Feet

Description

The National Audubon Society presents a new line of native trees that helps birds and wildlife thrive in your area! The unique texture and color of the Audubon® Native Smoketree (Cotinus obovatus) means not settling with boring or plain ornamentals. Now you can have a conversation starter and turn heads with ravishing color!

Well-known for its purple foliage with reddish-orange or yellow veins and glowing red undersides. The rounded to oval leaves are leathery and keep their color in the heat of summer better than other varieties of this species. The foliage fills the open spreading crown and wispy pinkish branches. Named for the blooms appear as puffs of purple smoke, they appear in summer and persist until autumn.

Sometimes known as Smokebush, Smoke Tree’s intensity of color all growing season! You and your pollinators enjoy the pleasant floral scent. These delightful blooms are bright red with hints of pink and violet. Resembling a Dr. Seuss masterpiece. In autumn, the Fall Foliage combusts, and the blue-green leaves take on rainbow-sherbet shades of raspberry, orange, lemon, and lime!

Planting and Application:

Native Smoketrees are great privacy screens along the roadside or fence line. Either large shrubs or small Ornamental trees with pruning, they are whimsical focal points and specimens!

Heads will turn all growing season when planted en masse, as thick hedgerows and shelterbelts for wildlife cover or in groupings for privacy and color! Wildlife shelter and food, the small seeds on female Smoke Trees feed Cardinal, Grosbeak, Wrens, Sparrow, Thrush, Oriole, Finch, Mockingbird, Thrasher, Vireo u0026amp; Wood Warbler.

• Pink Spring Foliage, Matures Blue – Dark Green
• Lightly Fragrant, Whimsical Puff-Like Flowers
• Wildlife Shrub – Cover, Shelterbelts u0026amp; Biodiversity
• Seeds on Female Plants for Birds
• Fantastic Fall Color u0026amp; 4 Season Interest

ProPlantTips for Care:

Smoketree’s need a well-drained area of the yard, thriving in almost any soil type with medium moisture. This exciting plant loves to show off its unique colors in full sun!

• Drought-Tolerant, Disease-Resistant
• Adapted to Stony, Clay Soils
• Full Sun u0026amp; Some Part Sun
• Multi-Branched Shrub or Tree With Pruning – Prune in Winter

Whimsical and unique, plus beauty and color, the Audubon® Native Smoketree will brighten any garden application you can think to use it in! Order your bird-friendly native today at NatureHills.com!

Audubon® Plant Information

Bird-Friendly native trees and plants provide food and shelter for local and migrating birds, as well as other wildlife. By purchasing and planting native flora, you will support Audubon’s conservation mission and impact, while helping birds and wildlife thrive!

• Grown Without Neonicotinoids
• Audubon® is Licensed u0026amp; Registered to the National Audubon Society
• May Not Be Available in Non-Native Regions, States or Countries – Check Here
• Audubon® Native Plants u0026amp; Trees are Exclusively Grown by Bower u0026amp; Branch