When I was a kid growing up in College Station ... people out there who are just learning this plant as if it’s something brand new and special. Vitex is as old as Texas road dust and barbed ...

Vitex chaste trees are beautiful and virtually ... In spring, it quickly develops new shoots that grow 3 to 5 feet tall, producing, a spectacular flower show in summer. This heat-loving plant ...

I have been asked by several people to identify this very showy plant recently. Usually the description goes: “It looks like a great big butterfly bush” and with that I am fairly confident ...

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 ...

Are these really water sprouts, or is this how a vitex grows? They originally were ... The native Hinckley columbine is a buttery yellow. Easy to grow, it reseeds freely. The most satisfying ...

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.

Allowed to grow naturally, a vitex will generally form a large bushy plant about 10 feet tall. If you want it more compact, cut the plant back to about 2 to 3 feet from the ground each year in ...

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia ... shrub to small tree growing to 10 feet tall and wide. The leaves are three-parted and green with a white margin, and they grow to 3 inches long and wide.

So, it’s “vitex” for me. This really isn’t a tree. It’s a large shrub. But then again, so are crape myrtles. Yet we train crape myrtles to grow into tree forms. But at least they have ...

fast-growing plant that thrives on sand dunes. Beach vitex, dubbed “coastal kudzu,” is already banned in North Carolina and South Carolina, where it ravaged dunes and created barriers for ...