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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Selecting the strongest and best-placed of the new growth, I removed the rest to begin retraining the plant into a multi ... delicate-looking split-leaf vitex, V. negundo heterophylla, is just ...

Q: How large will vitex trees grow? Our HOA just planted them in the parkways alongside our streets, and they don’t seem like a good choice there. A: Regular vitex (lilac chaste tree ...

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 ...