Chaste Tree

Tagged as: Four Season Landscape

Botanical Name:  Vitex agnus-castus

Common Name:  Chaste Tree

Updated 3/2013

 Height: 5-6'  Spread: 3-5'  Habit/Form: Oval   Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 6-8

Cultural Requirements: Full sun, moist, well drained soil. Not fully hardy in zone 5 so plant in a protected site.  Cut to ground in early spring for best flowering.

Ornamental Characteristics:  Aromatic gray-green leaves; upright clusters of lavender-blue flowers in summer; twiggy gray stems in winter.

Landscape Uses: specimen shrub, shrub border.

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