
I admit it: I am a chocoholic. I probably eat a tiny bit of
chocolate every day, usually a section or two of the super-dark organic Dagoba Eclipse.
And eating it is not enough. I like to make Cocoa Patchouli
Body Butter and slather it on my hands and body. I sniff cocoa absolute just for the fun of it. Heck, I just got immense pleasure from writing about it! Now I am thinking about planting a
chocolate lover's garden.
I didn't know that some flowers actually come in a rich cocoa color, like cosmos and daisies (called the chocolate flower), and what's more: they actually smell like chocolate. I love that these are perennials and will reseed themselves each year.
One of my favorites,
chocolate mint, makes the most amazing tea; it spreads so wildly in your garden that it's nearly invasive.
You can even get a chocolate climbing vine and a chocolate mint geranium that smells like a peppermint patty! So check out Pioneer Thinking's full article on planting a
chocolate lover's garden for all the details of the chocolate flowers you can have for your own outdoor chocolate fix!
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Silly question... but will these plants hurt my dog if he eats them?
ReplyNot a silly question, but also not one I know the answer to! I know that chocolate mint is safe, but not sure about the others.