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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A large chaste tree grows just outside my window in the Brunswick County Botanical Garden. Since I started 4 years ago, it has reliably provided a show stopping display of purple flowers each summer ...

Purple is popping out all over Houston. The vitex tree is having its moment. Vitex agnus-castus has many common names, including chaste tree, Texas lilac, lavender tree — even hemp tree for the ...

Right now in eastern North Carolina landscapes, a lovely and underused small, deciduous, ornamental tree or shrub, Vitex agnus-castus, chaste tree, vitex, or lilac chaste tree, is blooming. Chaste ...

It’s also touted as protection against insect bites and certain types of cancer and claimed to offer a variety of other health effects. However, not all benefits are backed by science. Here are the ...

Vitex is a large shrub or small tree that produces berries. These berries are often used as herbal supplements for hormonal symptoms. Vitex (Vitex agnus-castus) is a large shrub native to the ...

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, ...

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 ...