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Create a Chocolate Garden
by W.Holidays
Create
heaven in the garden with the scent, look, and taste of chocolate. Mom will love this! Plant Mom
a chocolate-colored, chocolate-scented, chocolate tasting garden or if
she enjoys gardening give her an assortment of chocolate plants, new
garden gloves, and trowel. You could also make a little planted gift
basket by lining a basket with a thick plastic bag, add a few pebbles
to the bottom, and filling the basket with potting soil. Then add some
of the chocolate herbs and flowers.
Step 1: Pick a spot and prepare the
soil
The spot you choose will depend on the types of plants you pick-sunny,
shade.... Dig up the soil, this will aerate the soil and
decompress the ground so the roots can take hold. Mix some
compost into the soil.
Step 2: Choose your plants and plant
them
Chose a variety, small, tall, climbing. Dig holes large enough for the
plants. Put the plant in the hole and lightly pack the dirt into fill
the hole. Water well. Remember to add a pole or trellis for a climbing
plant.
Step 3: Mulch
Mulch, then sprinkle with the chocolate hulls of the cocoa bean. It
looks good, but smells even better.
Plant Listing:
We'd like to thank everyone who contributed to the creation of this
list. We tried to include the common name and Latin name. Most
garden centers will be able to find what you want or something close to
it.
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Bird's Eye, Gilia
tricolour: clusters of small bell-shaped lilac flowers with gold and
dark purple throats, light chocolate scent
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Chocolate Beauty Sweet Bell Peppers,
chocolate colored and you can eat them too
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Chocolate Coral Bells
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Chocolate Cosmos,
Cosmos atrosanguineus: deep velvety brown with a chocolate scent (upper
right)
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Chocolate Daisy,
Berlanderia Lyrata: chocolate color center and sweet scent (middle
right)
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Chocolate Mint, edible
mint-chocolate flavor
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Chocolate-mint Scented Geranium
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Chocolate root, Geum
rivale
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Chocolate Soldier Columbine
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Chocolate Vine, Akebia
quinata: delicate deep burgundy flowers with sweet white chocolate
scent (lower right)
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Chocolate-leaf snakeroot,
Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate': related
to Joe Pye Weed has white flowers, chocolate foliage, shinny purple
stems
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Sweet Shrub,
Calycanthus floridus: bittersweet chocolate scent and purple-brown color
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Sweet Sultan,
Centaurea moschata: scent and color of chocolate
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Theobroma cacao,
Chocolate Nut Tree: small evergreen
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Midnight Candy Phlox,
(Zaluzianskya capensis)
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"Chocolate Soldiers" Columbine,
blooms are a dark purple
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Chocolate Lily, chocolate
fragrance with pink blooms
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Chocolate Bromelaid, Aechmea Cappucino
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Chocolate Flowering Cherry,
Prunus shirofugen, leaves are milk chocolate with white flowers that
turn pink as they age. leaves turn red in the fall
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Chocolate Foxgloves, Digitalis
parviflora, small chocolate colored flowers
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