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Grace Smoke Bush
Cotinus coggygria ‘Grace’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Grace Smoke Bush - Cotinus coggygria ‘Grace’
‘Grace’ is the smoke bush grown for scale. Where the common purple forms of Cotinus coggygria stay shrubby, this selection is vigorous and large leaved, building into a 4 to 5m shrub or small multi-stemmed tree with soft red-purple foliage that fires to scarlet and orange in autumn. Its summer flower panicles are the largest in the group, forming the pink smoky haze that gives the plant its name.
Why Grace
Leaf Size: Noticeably larger rounded leaves than standard smoke bush forms, which reads better on a big shrub at a distance.
Three Season Colour: Purple-red in spring, deepening through summer, then scarlet, orange and crimson in autumn.
Smoke Plumes: Large airy panicles of tiny flowers turn pink and feathery in early to mid summer and persist for weeks.
Poor Soil Tolerance: It performs best on lean, dry, even alkaline soils; rich damp ground produces soft growth and poorer colour.
Coppice Response: Hard pruning in late winter produces very large leaves and intense colour on strong new shoots, at the cost of that season's plumes.
Ideal Applications
Foliage Contrast Planting: Set against silver, lime green or grey foliage in a cool climate mixed border.
Informal Screening: A row of three or more gives a soft coloured screen 4m high without formal clipping.
Small Multi-Stem Tree: Lifted and thinned it makes a light canopied feature tree for a courtyard or front garden.
Dry Slope Planting: Suited to lean, well drained banks where irrigation is limited.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m
Best Planting Season: Late autumn through winter while dormant
Soil & Drainage: Free draining and on the lean side, from sandy loam to gravelly clay; avoid heavily fertilised, wet or poorly drained ground
Establishment Care: Water deeply once a week through the first summer, then taper off sharply, as this plant colours and flowers best when kept on the dry side. Mulch to conserve moisture but keep fertiliser to a minimum, and decide early whether you want plumes (light pruning only) or maximum foliage (hard prune in late winter).
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 5m, or 1.5 to 2m if coppiced annually
Width: 3 to 4m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun; colour fades and habit opens up in shade
Native to: Garden origin, a hybrid of the European smoke bush and the North American Cotinus obovatus
Flower Colour: Insignificant individual flowers carried in pink to smoky purple plumes
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







