Vitex, or chaste tree Lavender-blue is a welcome color in the landscape. Most of the summer-flowering trees and shrubs, such as crape myrtles, oleanders and altheas, tend to have flowers in shades of ...

I never knew a purple vitex, sometimes called chaste tree, could bring so many butterflies and bees to a yard. Glenn Baum, tree and shrubs expert at Mcdonald Garden Center in Hampton, promised me it ...

Vitex, a shrub with blue flowers, is in bloom across the Dallas-Fort Worth area in June 2023. The plant grows in almost any type of soil. Vitex, a shrub with blue flowers, is in bloom across the ...

Some people call is a chaste tree; others know it as vitex. Whatever you call it, this gorgeous tree is blooming all across the state at this time of year. Vitex produces small lavender-blue flowers, ...

I’m partial to blue flowers. In our blazing hot summers, they give me the illusion that the temperatures are cooler than they really are. That’s why, about 12 years ago when I was touring a daylily ...

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, ...

If you've admired the stunning display of purple flowers in the landscape in recent weeks, you've witnessed one of Louisiana's finest blooming small trees or large shrubs: the vitex, also known as the ...

And there she was. As my wife and I rounded the corner heading toward our son’s house in McKinney to pick up two of our grandsons this past Sunday afternoon, this radiant beauty called out my name.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word chaste as without unnecessary ornamentation; simple or restrained. Chaste tree, also known as vitex, is simple in ease of care but is far from being ...