Winecraft Gold Smokebush
Cotinus coggygria ‘MINCOJAU3’ · a dwarf gold-leaf smokebush
A compact, dense smokebush whose round leaves open orange, turn gold and settle to chartreuse, lighting up a border, with pink 'smoke' plumes in summer, and deer leave it alone. It's a little less cold-hardy than other smokebushes and needs soil that drains. Its sap can irritate sensitive skin.
- Mature size
- 5 × 5 ft
- 1.5 × 1.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Jun–Jul
- Fall color Oct–Nov
Winecraft Gold Smokebush at its mature size
A mature Winecraft Gold Smokebush grows 4 to 6 feet tall and just as wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Proven Winners.
Through the year
What Winecraft Gold Smokebush looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Apr
Bare short upright twigs.
In leaf · May–Sep
Dense round golden-yellow leaves.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Leaves turned orange and coral-red.
Growing Winecraft Gold Smokebush
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Small space, foundation planting, specimen, deer resistant, and fall color
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Southern Europe and Central China
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Winecraft Gold Smokebush, that’s about 5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Winecraft Gold Smokebush in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other smokebushes
Winecraft Gold Smokebush
Smoke BushAll drawn to the same scale.