Sumach red looks like a strawberry pie...

Gorgeous!

Is your sumach low growing? Mine is 5 foot tall!

Thanks Lil....Sticki: The tallest in this grove would be about 10 or 12 ft tall...the shorter ones (younger) around the edges...anywhere from a foot to three feet tall.
I love this plant it has gorgeous colour and it is very hardy, the only thing that may be a bother is that it suckers! In my last garden they started in the far back corner ..and I was finding them near the house ...within two years! I just seized them and pulled...they come up rather easily...but you never get all the root and they just keep coming...so you must keep pulling! lol...

ok, i had better remember that! i got one this year, wanted one for a long time cos there was one at the house i was born in!
i love their colour and their leaf shape

wow...just look at that...fab-u-lous! yes sticki, the sumach is a bother with it's suckers and it is sooooo beautiful in the autumn. Mine got to about 7' tall in my old garden, and about 10' across, but it had to go...it just started coming up everywhere. I wonder if putting a barrier around it would help...just a thought.

great photo, unusual.

Just keep an eye, Sticki. If you see any suckers pull them up quick-like! I love it, Karen. some of the best colour around is the sumach but they colour and the leaves fall very early compared to other trees. I had a sumach in my last garden that had to be 20ft tall! At their best they're like a lacy parasol!
Hello Bampy! Had to take a pic of this...it's a wonderful thing to stand under the canopy of sumach... nature's architecture!

I think you've described ours Lori, it makes a wonderful Canopy in the Summer, and has that lacy effect looking through it...and yes it is probably the first to shed it's leaves, in abundance in fact...:)))

It must like well drained sandy soil...and will grow on rocks where soil is thin...it's amazing.

That's our soil type to a T....

is that a red grass??

I suppose I was a little fanciful describing it as a strawberry pie! Hello Junna...no the red is Rhus, a low growing shrub/tree...which is known commonly as Sumach, here in South Eastern Ontario. It has a lovely fuzzy tree stem, ( all new growth is fuzzy!) with red flowers/fruiting brachts carried on the tips of the branches. It's deciduous..and turns this lovely bright red in autumn just before dropping it's leaves. the Red plumes remain all winter.