Re: Chocolate Smells....
- Subject: Re: Chocolate Smells....
- From: t*@molalla.net
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:06:24 -0800
Cosmos atrosanguineus DOES smell like chocolate. I've grown it
for 2 years, once in a big redwood tub, the better to keep track of it
and smell it as you pass by and the first year just in a long, low
planter where it didn't do so well..
In the tub it had morning and early afternoon sun, then shade the
rest of the day.. did fine although the plant itself is a long lanky
thing that might even do well in a large hanging basket. The
flowers are indeed a dark chocolate brown and smell delicious
although I haven't noticed that it "perfumes" much of an area the
way a heliotrope will do.
Another is Berlandiera lyrata - Chocolate flower. It too has a nice
chocolate smell but again, you have to actually smell the flower to
get the fragrance.
The Berlandiera I bought from High Country Gardens in Santa Fe,
NM website is:
www.highcountrygardens.com
The Chocolate Cosmos is available at garden centers now... it
used to be one of those plants that no one had ever heard of; they
had only heard of the regular annual Cosmos.
What other Chocolates do you have??? These are the only two I
have found so far.
Connie Wheeler
Molalla, OR
terconn@molalla.net
Zone 7
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