The shrub cotinus coggyria 39royal purple39 is popular and easy to grow it has marvellous beetroot red rounded leaves forming in whorls around its stem the leaves appear almost translucent on a bright sunny day and change to glorious copper tones by autumn in mid summer the feathery blooms are stunning and will be the envy of the neighbours cotinus is a low maintenance shrub neat bushy and will last for many years in the garden this smoke bush will grow in many different soils en