Purple smoke tree is an interesting shrub that eventually becomes a small, irregularly shaped ornamental tree. Leaves are about the size of an egg, dark purple, but not shiny.

Now that the trees have gotten ready to drop the leaves, they are a darker, more chocolate-purple color. Soon the trees will be naked offering a good look at the dark grey-black color of the trunk ...

Purple flowers contrast beautifully against green foliage for a striking yard. These options are ideal for shadier garden ...

The flowers of the shiny-leaved yellowhorn trees are in full bloom at the Qilian Mountain Water Resource Conservation Forest Research Institute in Gansu province. [Photo by Liu Ruiping/for ...

The Splendor of Autumn Every autumn we revel in the beauty of the fall colors. The mixture of red, purple, orange and yellow is the result of chemical processes that take place in the tree as the ...

The last five trees ― Newport purple leaf plums ― were planted Friday at Mansfield Art Center, 700 Marion Ave., during an Arbor Day ceremony.