Vitex rotundifolia Very Rare Even in winter the peeling

Even in winter the peeling bark gives a quiet kind of beauty

Most gardeners who grow camellias know two of them

and a thick freight of myth

as a living fence: set as cuttings in a row

wildlife-feeding native for difficult sites

Vitex rotundifolia Very Rare Even in winter the peelingA 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