RE: Chocolate Smells....
- Subject: RE: Chocolate Smells....
- From: "Marilyn Dube" m*@easystreet.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:50:27 -0800
Connie,
There is a chocolate mint that is easily available. It needs to be grown
in a container because it is as invasive as any other mint. The leaves are
dark and when crushed they smell like a Peppermint Patty candy bar. Try a
few leaves in your tea or hot chocolate. There is also a scented
Pelargonium called Chocolate Mint (another Peppermint Patty smell) that has
large fuzzy dark green leaves with a large chocolate blotch in the center.
It's tender but cuttings root easily.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
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From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of terconn@molalla.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:06 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Chocolate Smells....
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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