#chaste tree

[inthecityofgoodabode]

November 2025: The First Week

The day after Halloween:

Our frost covers aren't pretty but they get the job done:

Last warm season harvest before our first frost:

[titisorriso]

Still experimenting with CSP. Have a Hestia.

[renosser]

[thymeandchai]

[kenjed]

Chaste tree in Kastri, Naxos, Greece

summer 2022

[echoedvoice]

The wonderful CHEDDIFER on the staircase (ft. Harry the tortoiseshell cat in the first pic), and on her walk!! We found a chaste tree! Vitex agnus-castus (also called vitex, chaste tree / chastetree, chasteberry, Abraham's balm, lilac chastetree, or monk's pepper) is a plant native of the Mediterranean region. It is one of the few temperate-zone species of Vitex, which is on the whole a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering plants. Theophrastus mentioned the shrub several times, as agnos (άγνος) in Enquiry into Plants. It has been long believed to be an anaphrodisiac – leading to its name as "chaste tree". It also grows in the United States, most notably Texas:

Needless to say, we really enjoyed ourselves! 😁

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[squincess]

bees on the chaste tree 🐝 💕