Gardener's Diary 1 2021-191, Shandong Heze June 8, 2021

A warm and beautiful spike of Vitex

Spike flower Vitex, also known as bauhinia stripe. Verbena family deciduous shrubs are widely distributed in China. Originally wild, it was later cultivated as a garden flower and plant. It is light-loving, hardy, heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant, easy to manage, and has a long flowering period, with endless flowers from June to October. The flowers are lilac purple, the inflorescence is apex, long spike-shaped, from bottom to top, from bottom to top, in the garden more intensive planting, when in full bloom, bees fly butterfly dance, warm and spectacular and beautiful.

The following spike flowers were photographed in Huandi Park in Heze City.