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Article: beautiful Vitex needs full sun to bloom each year use dogs' droppings in vegetable garden?(Flavor/Gracious Living)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2008
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This is an encore column by Robert Stiffler. The following questions originally were published in 1990.
Q. You wrote an article about vitex where you said it should bloom the first year. This is the third year for mine and it has grown well but never bloomed. It has no sign of buds. I bought it as a healthy bush from Thomas Jefferson Gardens at Monticello. Any suggestions?
A. It's unusual for vitex to fail to bloom. Is it on the north side of your house, under an oak tree or in deep shade? It needs full sun to bloom. If your answer is yes to any of the questions above, move it after Oct. 15 into an area that gets full sun and it should bloom profusely.
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