Choices among shrubs are Indian hawthorn and oleander; and, among small trees, crape myrtle -- and the lovely vitex. Vitex, or chaste tree Lavender-blue is a welcome color in the landscape.

Vitex or chaste trees produce clouds of stunning purple flowers in summer.

A: Vitex is an easy-to-grow, deciduous small tree or large shrub; I find it a rewarding plant with no cons. If spent flowers are removed, it blooms spring to frost and attracts butterflies. Vitex ...

Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to ...

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 ...

I prefer to train vitex to three or five trunks so that I don’t have to worry about trying to have a straight one. They still make attractive small tree-form plants, just not in lollipop form.

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 palmate shape of its leaves.

LSU Garden News: Make your own flower arrangements to fill your home with color and fragrance Allowed to grow naturally, vitex will generally form a large, bushy plant about 10 feet tall.

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 i… ...

Chaste tree (vitex agnus-castus) has been putting on a show for several weeks. When the plant is covered with flowers, it's a real eye-catcher and generates a lot of interest. Chaste tree is ...

One of my neighbors cut his small tree-form vitex back to the ground last fall. The plant started growing back this spring and is now a beautiful 3-foot-tall bush.