By Freeasabird
Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom 
we bought a cotinus [Grace] a couple of months ago from a very good nursery [Waterperry]and it's still a collection of 'small sticks' only a few tiny leaves on two of the stems and nothing on the other. Should we dig it up and take it back?It's planted in a south facing sandy soil to which we added nutrients as instructed when planting.it has now had plenty of rain and plenty of sun, what do you think?
30 May, 2012
Answers
thank you for answering Bamboo. Yes, I agree, think we will take it back and try to buy another one.
30 May, 2012
Horrible lanky shrubs unless you pinch them.
30 May, 2012
Pay for postage or collect, You can have my Cotinus Royal purple. Prune it back the more agressive it gets!
Been in the ground 2 years, Its coming out. Let me Know you are welcome to it.
30 May, 2012
Oh, no, Japon - Cotinus Royal Purple is probably my favourite plant. It does need a lot of room, which is why I don't have one now, but a 10 foot high one is a thing of beauty, specially when it develops the red 'blanket stitch' effect as the leaves turn in autumn. A beautiful shrub.
31 May, 2012
Horrible plant...............Im suprissed at you Bamboo!!
31 May, 2012
Yes, mine has only just come into leaf. Ditto, Bamboo, one of the best shrubs I have bought.
1 Jun, 2012
I just wish they'd produce a smaller version...
1 Jun, 2012
thanks for answers everyone. Thank you Japon for offering your plant to us, but it is the Cotinus Grace I have been wanting[and found hard to track down.]All the Cotinus family look lovely I must say.
2 Jun, 2012
This shrub can be slow to start with, seem to take forever, but if you can, I'd return it and get one that's in full leaf now instead...
30 May, 2012