A:You can trim now if it needs shaping. Trim it again after the first wave of blooms to encourage a fuller plant and more flowers. Sometimes I snip off the spent flowers in summer and get a third ...

Q: I moved to a house with established beds, one with a 12- to 14-foot vitex that had never been pruned. I pruned smaller, crossing branches, but because it is so tall, it is impossible to cut spent ...

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, ...

When I was a kid growing up in College Station, there were grandmas around town that told me how their grandmas grew vitex on their old farmsteads in Texas. Now friend, that’s going back a long time.