Vitex, a shrub with blue flowers, is in bloom across the Dallas-Fort Worth area in June 2023. The plant grows in almost any type of soil. Vitex, a shrub with blue flowers, is in bloom across the ...

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 ...

Q: Can you tell me what this plant is? It is like a small tree and covered in purple blooms. The bees were going crazy. At first I thought it was a unique crape myrtle, but when I looked closer, that ...

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) grows to 15 or ...

Beachgoers, you might have noticed an attractive, vining plant growing along the coastal dunes. Beach vitex (Vitex rotundifolia) has been seen in St. Johns and Nassau counties, which is a problem ...

Q: In a recent column there was a question asked about pruning a chaste tree. You responded with it being a vitex. I was afraid I had pruned mine too much. It had a lot of dead wood, but it looks like ...

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 ...

Q: I’ve been admiring a couple of tree varieties planted on city property this spring. One is a tree planted in the center median along Academy, between Wyoming and San Mateo. It has dark green ...

And there she was. As my wife and I rounded the corner heading toward our son’s house in McKinney to pick up two of our grandsons this past Sunday afternoon, this radiant beauty called out my name.