Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

Cherry Trees – There are fewer dwarf cherry tree varieties. Those available are usually grafted onto Gisela 5 rootstock, which keeps the trees under 10 feet tall.

MORE: Read past columns from Al Shay. The chaste tree (Vitex agnus castus), besides being simply magnificent in bloom this time of year, is incredibly drought tolerant, requiring absolutely no water.

Hailing from Europe and parts of Asia, the chaste tree is most often grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub but can be pruned to a single-trunk, 20- to 30-foot tree. Several varieties have a more ...

Light Site your chaste tree in full sun, where it gets a minimum of 6 hours of direct sun each day. While it will grow with less sun, it will not flower nearly as well. Soil and Water ...

Chaste Trees are typically grown as a large multi-stemmed deciduous shrub. The non-native 10–15-foot maturing shrubs are favored for their showy lavender flowers that are on display late spring ...

Otherwise known as "monk’s pepper", chaste tree produce was traditionally used by monks from 23-79 AD to sedate sexual passion, and in fact by many Greeks for the same purpose. The chaste tree berries ...

Chaste trees produce showy, 5-to-7-inch spikes of small, lavender-blue flowers from late May through June in Louisiana with a second flush of flowers in July or early August.

Chaste trees produce showy, 5-to-7-inch spikes of small, lavender-blue flowers from late May through June in Louisiana with a second flush of flowers in July or early August.

Luckily, with dwarf fruit trees, you don’t have to. They’re compact versions of their larger counterparts and are available for a wide range of fruit varieties, including citrus, stone fruit ...

So-called dwarf fruit trees, a.k.a. patio apples, are gateway plants for budding urban permaculturists. One of the first things I did when we committed to an urban permaculture make-over, was ...