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 flowers, ...

If you've admired the stunning display of purple flowers in the landscape in recent weeks, you've witnessed one of Louisiana's finest blooming small trees or large shrubs: the vitex, also known as the ...

I never knew a purple vitex, sometimes called chaste tree, could bring so many butterflies and bees to a yard. Glenn Baum, tree and shrubs expert at Mcdonald Garden Center in Hampton, promised me it ...

The use of water-wise or drought-resistant plants is part of the developing concept of sustainable landscapes. View full sizeAt 12 inches, the flower spikes of Shoal Creek vitex are noticeably longer ...

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 and 6 ...

Dear Neil: We had four 30-gallon vitex trees planted by a nursery in May this year. They all had buds at planning time, but most of them never bloomed, so I trimmed off the old, dead ones. It put on ...

When I was a kid growing up in College Station, there were grandmas around town that told me how their grandmas grew vitex on their old farmsteads in Texas. Now friend, that’s going back a long time.

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 ...