Vitex or chaste trees produce clouds of stunning purple flowers in summer. ... To prune as a single-trunk tree, select the main trunk when the plant is young, ...

If you wish to grow the vitex as a V-shaped, multi-trunked small tree, do not prune as hard to avoid having to "retrain" the plant. Keep lower branches and suckers removed.

Vitex need regular pruning to produce an attractive multi-trunked tree. Prune them in the winter by cleaning out the entire center of the tree and removing all side branches from the main four to ...

Q. I have a chaste tree with a nice full shape, but the upper limbs seem spindly, and they all lean in one direction. Is there any pruning I can do to correct this? The tree is about 8 feet tall ...

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 ...

There is even a century-old pollarded Vitex tree, ... It isn’t pollarding, but pruning is pruning. Gotta do what you gotta do. To email Felder Rushing, go to www.felderrushing.net.

Depending on the look you’re after, annual pruning may be your biggest maintenance chore. Light Site your chaste tree in full ...