Vitex at Springdale Farmer's Market

MrILoveTheAnts · July 09, 2008, 05:26:33 PM

Amanda · July 09, 2008, 05:33:13 PM

Those are really great pictures! Thank you for sharing.
~Amanda

Vetch · July 09, 2008, 06:20:09 PM

That vitex plant puts mine to shame - need to get the water and fertilizer back on those plants more often.

MrILoveTheAnts · July 09, 2008, 06:22:23 PM

To be fair I'm told it's 8 or 9 years old. And may have been trained to look like a tree. I'm curious if anyone else has such a tree. I think they're an Asian import so I don't like promoting them to much over native trees. But I just don't see anything else blooming now and I even own one myself.

poka-bee · July 09, 2008, 07:09:52 PM

Great pics! I've always called the flower fly H Bee! Never knew what it really was!! Don't know how I figured out that they don't sting but as long as I can remember I've been catching them making others squirm..specially the bully boys in 2nd grade...they called me a bee witch & ran screeching & crying like girls when I tossed some at them!! :evil: After that all I had to do was hold my hand like it had something in it & they would leave whomever they were picking on alone! Still don't like bully's.. :-x I'm so glad you had that picture in there! A lifelong question answered! Jody

KONASDAD · July 10, 2008, 10:51:33 AM

Knowing absolutely nothing about this plant, I googled. Here is a really neat link w/ loads of great info about [plant w/ some neat photos too.
http://www.plantanswers.com/vitex.htm

Keith13 · July 10, 2008, 11:03:33 AM

regarding the vitex we have them down here they grow to well over thirty feet high with a spread of about thirty feet as well. they make a nice tree really

I saw a Flower fly the other day I had no idea what it was at the time but after your pics now I know. Learn something new everyday

Your pics were very good. nicely done :)

Keith