Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice about caring for chaste trees, cucumbers, and orange trees.

A large chaste tree grows just outside my window in the Brunswick County Botanical Garden. Since I started 4 years ago, it has reliably provided a show stopping display of purple flowers each ...

These fruit tree companion plants naturally help reduce weeds, deter pests, attract pollinators, and more.

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 nati… ...

Chaste trees produce showy 5-to-7-inch spikes of small lavender blue flowers from late May through June in Louisiana, with a second flush of flowers again in July or early August.

Chaste trees are in bloom June through September, opening clusters of blue to purplish flowers along terminal shoots. A white form also is available.

But the splendid spikes of lavender-blue flowers coming from the Vitex agnus-castus, commonly known as the chaste tree, are a welcome sign in the grove during the dog days of summer.

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 ...

Good companion plants include the following flowering perennials: Miscanthus grass, Tall Tales fountain grass, Pink Clouds hibiscus, tall coreopsis, Lemon Queen sunflower and butterfly bushes.

Good companion plants include the following flowering perennials: Miscanthus grass, Tall Tales fountain grass, Pink Clouds hibiscus, tall coreopsis, Lemon Queen sunflower and butterfly bushes.