Post by WVsnowflake on Dec 10, 2008 17:02:19 GMT -6
I recieve a bi weekly newsletter from the artistic garden . It is just full of good info and a few links. I love reading it . I am posting a lil of the letter I recieved this week along with the link of the web site. I have learned quite a few interesting tips here.
Do you love chocolate?? I do! Are you aware of some of the plants that truly have chocolate scents to them?
Today let’s learn how to add a “chocolate theme” to our gardens! ;D
You know, “garden art” doesn’t have to be a man-made object! Creating art via the flowers and plants you arrange in your garden are certainly worthy of me talking about! I can’t think of any painting, as example, that can rival what the Great Creator above has placed on this Earth!
There are a number of plants, some even with flowers, that can truly bring the scent into our garden or impart the taste of chocolate into our cooking.
Depending upon your planting zone, one, some, or all of these plants might be suitable for you. I’m not promising this to be a complete list, but you will find these more “popular” in most parts of the country, so probably easier to find:
• Chocolate Mint Scented Geranium;
• Chocolate Cosmos;
• Chocolate Mint (Mentha piperita cv.)-- do yourself a big favor and stick this plant in a container -- mint is invasive, to say the least!; and
• Chocolate Daisy (Berlandiera lyrata).
To bring the dark color of chocolate into your garden, just for visual appeal (non-edible), you could try:
• Black Bugbane
• Actaea 'Black Negligee'
• Black Hollyhock (Thomas Jefferson grew this at Monticello)
• Aquilegia 'Single Black' (Columbine)
• Canna 'Australia'
• Elephant Ears ‘Black Magic’ (Colocasia)
• Corn 'Mayes Double Red' (Chocolate Corn
www.the-artistic-garden.com/
Do you love chocolate?? I do! Are you aware of some of the plants that truly have chocolate scents to them?
Today let’s learn how to add a “chocolate theme” to our gardens! ;D
You know, “garden art” doesn’t have to be a man-made object! Creating art via the flowers and plants you arrange in your garden are certainly worthy of me talking about! I can’t think of any painting, as example, that can rival what the Great Creator above has placed on this Earth!
There are a number of plants, some even with flowers, that can truly bring the scent into our garden or impart the taste of chocolate into our cooking.
Depending upon your planting zone, one, some, or all of these plants might be suitable for you. I’m not promising this to be a complete list, but you will find these more “popular” in most parts of the country, so probably easier to find:
• Chocolate Mint Scented Geranium;
• Chocolate Cosmos;
• Chocolate Mint (Mentha piperita cv.)-- do yourself a big favor and stick this plant in a container -- mint is invasive, to say the least!; and
• Chocolate Daisy (Berlandiera lyrata).
To bring the dark color of chocolate into your garden, just for visual appeal (non-edible), you could try:
• Black Bugbane
• Actaea 'Black Negligee'
• Black Hollyhock (Thomas Jefferson grew this at Monticello)
• Aquilegia 'Single Black' (Columbine)
• Canna 'Australia'
• Elephant Ears ‘Black Magic’ (Colocasia)
• Corn 'Mayes Double Red' (Chocolate Corn
www.the-artistic-garden.com/
