Do you love the smell of chocolate? Does the wonderful aroma of chocolate make your mouth water?
If you’re interested in bringing a touch of chocolate heaven to your garden The Chocolate Cosmos won’t disappoint. This perennial wonder has velvety, dahlia-like, chocolate-maroon flowers but more importantly for chocolate lovers gives off a heady aroma reminiscent of the best Belgian chocolates. Plant it in a sunny spot and then inhale regularly for a daily dose of chocolate heaven without any calories!
The Chocolate Cosmos (or Cosmos Chocamocha) is in a class of its own when it comes to chocolatey aromas floating on the breeze that will have you drooling!
Other chocolatey plant contenders
Clematis Jan Fopma is the world’s first chocolate scented clematis and Clematis Aromatica will infuse your garden with a wonderful vanilla scent.
But the plant world offers up plenty of chocolatey choice when it comes to foliage or flower colour – they’re chocolate by name (choc, mocha, chocamocha and plain old chocolate are all names to look out for) and chocolate by nature when it comes to their colour, the only downside is they don’t smell of chocolate!
Chocolate themed plants
Chocolate foliage plants
Geranium chocolate twist
Heuchera Chocolate ruffles
Canna Australia
Chocolate blooms
Dahlia karma choc
Aquilegia viridiflora ‘Chocolate Soldier’
For more chocolatey planting inspiration or to buy a piece of perennial chocolate heaven you might like to visit one of the following websites:
http://www.chocolateflowerfarm.com/ http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/perennials/unusual-plants/classid.1006/
http://www.bloomingdirect.com/products/Garden-Plants/Cosmos-Choca-Mocha.html
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/plants1/product/p85277/1.html