RE: Cotinus OK in Spain?

Hi Nick (and welcome!)

Cotinus coggygria (one of my favorite species names to write with all those
descenders!) is a favorite plant here in California. Here, quoted without
permission but I hope they don't mind, is what our Sunset Western Garden
Book says about it:

Plants are at their best under stress in poor or rocky soil. In cultivated
gardens, give them fast drainage and avoid overly wet conditions. Resistant
to oak root fungus. Native from southern Europe to central China.

So perhaps you're treating it too well?

Cheryl

> 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?
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