Vitex chaste trees are beautiful and virtually carefree summer-blooming shrubby trees that attract a wide variety of pollinators. It’s a fast grower that produces dense, upright panicles of flowers, ...

Chaste tree (Vitex angus-cestus), also called chasteberry, with its striking lavender-blue flowers which appear on spikes in the fall, is the perfect heat-loving, drought-tolerant addition to an open ...

A guide to five flowering trees to prune in early spring, as you sacrifice flowers and growth if they are trimmed any later, plus expert pruning advice.

Q: In a recent column there was a question asked about pruning a chaste tree. You responded with it being a vitex. I was afraid I had pruned mine too much. It had a lot of dead wood, but it looks like ...

Purple is popping out all over Houston. The vitex tree is having its moment. Vitex agnus-castus has many common names, including chaste tree, Texas lilac, lavender tree — even hemp tree for the ...

As we continue through our “winter” we can still accomplish some useful goals for the coming spring and summer. Of the cultural practices we can do for maintaining woody ornamental plants, chief among ...

The chaste tree makes an attractive specimen as your landscape bed’s centerpiece or in a large container on the deck. Easy-to-grow, drought resistant and attractive to butterflies and bees, Vitex ...

When I was a kid growing up in College Station, there were grandmas around town that told me how their grandmas grew vitex on their old farmsteads in Texas. Now friend, that’s going back a long time.

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