Fragrant Flowering Shrubs for Garden Focal Points: Sweet Almond & Chaste Tree attract pollinators, thrive in Florida, and fill your garden with scent & color.
Two of our most-planted flowering staples— Sweet Almond (Aloysia virgata)  and Chaste Tree (Vitex agnus-castus) —deliver huge seasonal color, intoxicating perfume, and nonstop pollinator action. We grow them at our homestead farm, across our nursery, and in client landscapes statewide because they’re tough, shapeable (shrub, hedge, or small tree), and wildly alive with bees and butterflies. When Sweet Almond perfumes the breeze, even our neighbors comment. And Vitex brings th
🌿 Vitex agnus-castus (Chaste Tree): Growing & Medicinal Uses
Meet Vitex agnus-castus , also known as the Chaste Tree  — one of the most beloved fragrant flowering shrubs  for Florida and the Southeast. When in bloom, this beauty explodes with lavender or white flower spikes that hum with bees and butterflies all summer long. But Vitex isn’t just a pollinator magnet — it’s a bridge between beauty and herbal medicine . Its seeds, called chasteberries , have been treasured for centuries for promoting hormonal balance, clear skin, and over
