Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. The old English ballad Scarborough Fair famously ...

Chaste Tree For a drought-tolerant option, choose the chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus ... that turn reddish yellow in fall and unique bark that provides year-round texture and color.

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 ...

Vitex or chaste trees produce clouds of stunning purple flowers in summer. Vitex chaste trees are beautiful and virtually carefree summer-blooming shrubby trees that attract a wide variety of ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age of dinosaurs.

the stuff that covers branches and tree trunks, otherwise known as bark, may take the biggest bite out of our botanical observations. Crape myrtle is probably the most popular flowering tree in ...