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 ...

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 flowers, ...

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, ...

SALISBURY — One of the most difficult yet interesting things about moving from one geographic area to another is learning about landscape shrubs, trees and flowers which are hardy and easy to care for ...

Vitex, or chaste tree Lavender-blue is a welcome color in the landscape. Most of the summer-flowering trees and shrubs, such as crape myrtles, oleanders and altheas, tend to have flowers in shades of ...

Chaste tree (Vitex angus-cestus), also called chasteberry, with its striking lavender-blue flowers which appear on spikes in the fall, is the perfect heat-loving, drought-tolerant addition to an open ...

I’m partial to blue flowers. In our blazing hot summers, they give me the illusion that the temperatures are cooler than they really are. That’s why, about 12 years ago when I was touring a daylily ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean Allsop Vitex chaste trees are beautiful and virtually carefree summer-blooming shrubby trees that attract a wide variety of ...

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 ...