Plant: Blue Diddley® Chastetree Vitex
Vitex · Vitex agnus-castus 'Blue Diddley'
$54.00
Size: 2 gal
Light
Full Sun
Bloom
Summer
Mature size
6 ft tall6 ft wide
More about this plant
Blue Diddley chastetree is a compact vitex grown for its blue summer flowers. It needs full sun, reaches about 3 to 6 feet tall and wide, and is heat tolerant, which suits it to borders and landscape beds in warm climates.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 6 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Blue Diddley chastetree is a compact vitex grown for its blue summer flowers. It needs full sun, reaches about 3 to 6 feet tall and wide, and is heat tolerant, which suits it to borders and landscape beds in warm climates.
- Flowers
- Blue flower spikes in summer on a dwarf plant.
- Foliage
- Palmately compound gray green leaves with 5 to 9 leaflets that smell menthol like when bruised.
- Fruit
- Small purple drupes in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Dark gray bark, furrowed or smooth.
- Pruning
- Prune in early spring since it flowers on new wood. Deadhead for continuous bloom.
- Native range
- Mediterranean to Pakistan
