MORE ONLINE This issue, Pat Rubin introduces a new online feature that highlights what she does each month of the year in her vegetable garden. Find it at californiabountiful.com.
Purple smoke tree
Chinese pistache
Crepe myrtle
Purple smoke tree ( Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’ ): This purple-leaved tree gets its name from the pinkish, smoke-like flower/seed clusters it produces every spring. It can be grown as a large shrub or trained as a single- trunked tree. It can handle quite a bit of pruning. Give it plenty of sun or the leaves will turn to green for much of the summer. It does not like damp feet, so go easy on the water. There is also a green-leaved smoke tree. Other choices include the paper birch ( Betula papyrifera ), eastern redbud ( Cercis canadensis ) and Japanese maples ( Acer palmatum ).
Coral bark maple
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