Texas Gardening: Vitex tree cut down?, 1 by crowellli

crowellli wrote:
DON'T WHACK IT TO THE GROUND! I followed that TAMU advice and killed the oldest of my vitex. It never came back. It put up a few little sprouts, but they only got about 2 inches tall and then withered. Here's a pic of my 2 year old plant. I've pruned it each year into an open vase form. It always has so many blooms that it actually stops traffic. I looked up last year to see a guy I didn't know taking a pic of it with his cell phone so his wife could see it. I went out and talked to him and wrote the name of it down for his wife. It's planted in unammended heavy clay soil and only gets a hanful of Ozmocote each spring.

Crow