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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...