On this week’s episode of Ask Grumpy Steve Bender, also known as Southern Living's Grumpy Gardener, talks about the chaste tree, which is a beautiful blooming blue that bumble bees love. Plus, he ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

June is the month for summer lilac, or chaste tree, to bloom. Unfortunately we Southerners can't have much success with lilacs, but the chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) provides the beautiful blue ...

The chaste tree makes an attractive specimen as your landscape bed’s centerpiece or in a large container on the deck. Easy-to-grow, drought resistant and attractive to butterflies and bees, Vitex ...

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 ...

Our 8-foot-tall chaste tree got zapped by the last freeze and looks pretty, bad but there are some green shoots. How far and when should we cut it back? No matter how bad it looks, your chaste tree ...

Question. A chaste tree has been recommended for my landscape. Does it grow well in Central Florida? Answer. Get ready for some great blue flowers for late spring and summer from the chaste tree, also ...

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 ...