Sentence examples for smoke tree from inspiring English sources
noun
A common garden shrub.
After a few miles we left the canyon and passed through a smoke tree forest.
I started by cutting back the purple smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria Purpurea) because I like to encourage a bushy plant full of big burgundy leaves.
Cotinus coggygria (smoke tree), from southern Europe to central China, is a shrub with purplish foliage and large diffuse inflorescences that give the "smoky" appearance.
The smoke tree (Cotinus coggyria), which takes its common name from the smoky clouds of mauve flowers that billow from its limbs in late summer, may trigger memories of the smoke that poured from ground zero for months.
Verticillium wilt is a threat to smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria Scop).
Vascular wilt in smoke tree was reported in Fragrant Hills Park as early as 1990, and subsequently the disease spread to other smoke tree growing areas in Beijing [ 3].
Its humid air smells of nearly century-old boxwoods; vinca minor vines creep underfoot and Kentucky coffee trees and smoke trees sway overhead.
The castle opens onto a hedge maze leading to a walled garden of smoke trees, dogwood, irises, roses and other blooms, much like the book's hidden garden.
Smoke trees spend most of the year leafless, their mournful appearance enlivened in May and June when they erupt in masses of blue pea-like flowers.
There will be dogwoods on a bluff in New Jersey, smoke trees in Staten Island and crape myrtle at a park in the Rockaways, where people also watched the towers fall.
"We're planting 78 smoke trees, because that's how many firemen's lives we lost from Staten Island," said Carolyn Pinto, a member of one of six clubs on Staten Island that belong to the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, which is helping to pay for the garden.
