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Fall color for your garden

Plant shimmery ornamental grasses and flame-colored flowers for a great fall garden

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A close-up of purple leaves on a smoke tree.
Photography by Chris Leschinsky, article by Sharon Cohoon

Bring on the heat: Five warm-colored plants 

4. Smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’). Deciduous shrub with purple foliage turns more burnished in fall; flowers resemble puffs of smoke.

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