Chocolate Lover's Garden

"I never met a chocolate I didn't like" If chocolate is the flavor you or someone in your family craves, this garden escape is yours to create. Tempt your sense of smell with a bouquet of blossoms filled with the aroma of chocolate. All the plants in this yummy collection have flowers or foliage that look like the color of chocolate or smell like chocolate brownies!

Choose a sunny spot for your chocolate garden preferably against a fence or wall.  Since we are including a vine, a trellis would also work. Locate it near a walkway to enjoy the fragrance.

Be sure that your soil is in good condition. If your soil is not perennial ready, improve it by adding compost, such as well-rotted manure, leaf mold, peat moss or decomposed bark.  The more organic material the better.

We have a collection of annuals and perennials to provide abundant blooms for your chocolate lover's garden all summer long.

Plants for a chocolate garden

Chocolate cosmos- Annual in this zone.  Fudge-colored flowers atop 18-30 inch stems. Smells like it should be a native of Hershey, PA instead of Mexico.  Very unique!  Perfect as a cut flower.

Chocolate mint - The aroma of a peppermint patty- Keep it in bounds by growing it in a pot (bury it so the rim is above the soil) - Makes a refreshing herbal tea that tastes great with chocolate morsels.

Chocolate Peppermint Geranium - Velvety green leaves with a center of brownish purple- Releases its mint-chocolate scent when brushed against.  Use leaves as tea or in cakes.

Chocolate Vine - White or pink blossoms bear the fragrance of vanilla on vines that twine easily around supports.  A fine perennial vine. Check out the one right near the market!

Chocolate Ruffles Coral Bells - Just the name sounds perfect- Mounds of deep purple, crinkled and wrinkled leaves - its color and form hold up well - likes some afternoon shade

Purple Fountain Grass - Striking, beautiful burgundy foliage with pink to burgundy plumes.  Not hardy, but will attain full size in one season.  Well worth growing!

Chocolate Joe Pye Plant - Excellent 5-6' native.  Attractive shiny, deep purple stems hold interesting coarse, chocolate-colored leaves and contracting white flower heads in Sept. and Oct.  Butterflies love it!