So welcome to the LeLo in NoPo hosting of the Sassy Gardener blog. (that link is currently not taking you to sassy gardener, just the lame-ass temporary holding page)
I'm growing chocolate!!!
Okay, okay, so they're Chocolate Cosmos , but hey. It's still chocolate! And no calories!
Chocolate Cosmos are a fav' perennial. They bloom that deep, sexy, dark chocolate brown/burgundy, they're easy, work well in dappled light, and should produce blooms until late in the season. The one you see above glows with late afternoon/evening sunlight, and don't you just want to eat it up? Well, don't. Smell it instead. That's when you'll take in the sweet aroma of chocolate. How is this possible? I have no idea. It's like scented geraniums. How do they make them smell like pineapple? Ginger? Apple? I have no idea. But I'll enjoy it.
Sidenote: I once planted a little area in a friends' and called it dessert: strawberries, vanilla, and chocolate. Strawberries were the real thing, but they hung out with vanilla-scented Heliotrope and chocolate cosmos. Better dieting through gardening.
3 comments:
Delicious!
I think there may be a chocolate geranium (pergolarium) available, too.
I love chocolate cosmos. No ideas why I don't have any. I think I was told, I don't have the right light conditions for them, but the person that told me that also told me a lot of other things that have been proved wrong.
Yum! I love Chocolate Cosmos too and I planted some last year, but none made it thru the last freeze we had here. I'm not detered however, I will try again in another location.
got that new Camera yet? ;-)
Rozanne;
That chocolate geranium is now on my "watch for" list. Anything chocolate in the garden is good to me. As for growing them, try it. I haven't had problems, and while they prefer full sun, they do well in partial. My god. You live in Portland. f
Greenthumb;
That camera is coming any day: looking at this photo, I can't wait to have that thing in my hands! Thanks for the tips...
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