Cotinus OK in Spain?
- Subject: Cotinus OK in Spain?
- From: D* W*
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:53:30 -0700
posted for Nick Kearney by Diane Whitehead
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Hello,
Maybe I should introduce myself first, I'm a recent arrival to the list
and have lurked for a few weeks. I live near Valencia in Eastern Spain
about 15 km inland on the brow of a little hill. The soil in my garden
is fairly poor, and we almost always have a breeze, or more.
I have a problem: some friends, when I moved in gave me a present, a 3
metre Cotinus Coryggia (I think) also known as Royal Purple. I'm from
England originally, and there they call it a Smoke tree. My first
reaction was that it was not very appropriate for this climate, and that
it might suffer, but, gift horses are gift horses, and I planted it in
the most sheltered part of the garden next a wall and in the lowest
section. Three months later it is suffering, after a good start the
first month with a lot of new shoots, the older leaves have grown
progressively browner from the edges and some are now completely dry.
The younger shoots remain more or less healthy. But the tree looks
pretty sorry.
Has anyone experience with this tree or this problem. Any ideas?
