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 ...

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia Variegata.Growth habit: An irregular to rounded evergreen shrub to small tree growing to 10 feet tall and wide. The leaves are three-parted and green with a white ...

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia Variegata.Growth habit: An irregular to rounded evergreen shrub to small tree growing to 10 feet tall and wide. The leaves are three-parted and green with a white ...

, aka lavender tree. It grew approximately 6 feet in height, and this year it hasn't grown any taller. It has put out 6-foot water sprouts. Are these really water sprouts, or is this how a vitex ...

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 ...

Arabian lilac (Vitex trifolia ‘Purpurea’) is not a true lilac but, rather, a cousin to the chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus), a Mediterranean native.

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 ...

Vitex agnus-castus has many common names, including chaste tree, Texas lilac, lavender tree — even hemp tree for the palmate shape of its leaves. It not only draws the gardener’s attention ...

Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews.

Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews.

DEAR NEIL: I have a vitex that is trained to be a tree. I have continually cut the limb sprouts off but more keep coming back. I’d like to start ...