Vitex rotundifolia Very Rare and a thick freight of

and a thick freight of myth

Most gardeners who grow camellias know two of them

In the late 1870s the English plant hunter Charles Maries

as a living fence: set as cuttings in a row

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

Vitex rotundifolia Very Rare and a thick freight ofA 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