Chaste trees blooming again!

I read in Southern Living recently that if I clip the spent flowers off a Chaste tree it might encourage a second blooming. So, out I went and clip, clip the old faded blue spires were gone, into the compost pile.

Well, here we are, only a couple weeks later, and my dear Chaste trees are once again boasting beautiful blooms, nearly as many as the first showing. A treat to have such color at the end of July, when we're still in the heat of summer.

If you don't have a Chaste tree, get one! It'll make you happy.
Georgia

Spotlight on the Chaste tree

Each time I drive around the corner to my house, the Chaste tree in my front yard knocks me out. Long, blue flowers covering the tree have been blooming since early June and when the sun shines on them they light up the yard.

I have two specimens. One was labeled a Chaste tree, the other a Texas lilac, when I bought them at different nurseries. I've since learned they're the same plant. One was shaped as a tree, the other is smaller and shrub-like. I guess I can prune them both into trees.

I'm wondering if the dried blooms are desirable to birds. If I clip them off, I might get another bloom later in the summer.

Besides being beautiful, the Chaste tree is drought-tolerant. Yeah!