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Plant: Rock Steady® Chastetree Vitex
Vitex · Vitex agnus-castus 'Rock Steady'
Size: 2 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
If you’d like to spend literal months enjoying flowers, Rock Steady vitex is meant for you! We trialed it next to other popular options and it bloomed anywhere from 6-16 weeks longer. Since it blooms on new wood, it has to grow its flower buds in spring, but once it starts flowering in late spring it doesn’t stop until fall! Its light purple, candelabra-like blooms attract pollinators and look lovely in a cut flower arrangement. It is very reliable, as it flowers on new wood. So even if it experiences winter dieback in a colder region, it should still pop back up and present flowers. Pop a Rock Steady vitex into your garden for a seasons-long floral show!
- Full Sun
- Grows to 12 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
If you’d like to spend literal months enjoying flowers, Rock Steady vitex is meant for you! We trialed it next to other popular options and it bloomed anywhere from 6-16 weeks longer. Since it blooms on new wood, it has to grow its flower buds in spring, but once it starts flowering in late spring it doesn’t stop until fall! Its light purple, candelabra-like blooms attract pollinators and look lovely in a cut flower arrangement. It is very reliable, as it flowers on new wood. So even if it experiences winter dieback in a colder region, it should still pop back up and present flowers. Pop a Rock Steady vitex into your garden for a seasons-long floral show!
- Flowers
- Light purple, candelabra like blooms on new wood from late spring until fall.
- 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
