Vitex rotundifolia Very Rare Larger-flowered and more tender than

Larger-flowered and more tender than the common poet's jasmine

and a thick freight of myth

John's Wort above doorways and holy pictures to ward off evil at the feast of Saint John

as a living fence: set as cuttings in a row

Most gardeners who grow camellias know two of them

Vitex rotundifolia Very Rare Larger-flowered and more tender thanA tough, salt defying seaside groundcover with a serious caveat. Vitex rotundifolia, best known as beach vitex, is a low, prostrate, trailing shrub of the mint family, native to the coasts of eastern Asia, the Pacific islands, and Australia, where the plant binds shifting sand along the shore. Rounded, blue green leaves about two inches across clothe the running stems, aromatic and slightly spicy when crushed, and spikes of bright lavender blue