Chocolate Smelling Perennials
Chocolate lovers will want to plant these chocolate smelling perennials!
Yes, believe it or not there is a perennial that gives off a chocolate scent.
Tantalizing to human and bees alike, this plant has a common name of …. Chocolate Flower.
Otherwise known as Berlandiera lyrata, this chocolate smelling flower can be grown in zones 4 - 9 and is native to the southwest.
This daisy like flower has yellow petals on tip with bright red stripes underneath and chocolate colored stamens.
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Like most perennials, the chocolate flower looks best when grown in groups. Large clumps of them will result in a wonderful chocolate scent wafting through the air each morning. These wonderful smelling perennial plants bloom at night and dies back to the ground each winter only to return again in spring.
The chocolate flower or chocolate scented daisy grows to about 1 foot and makes a great edging or container plant. They like to be planted in full sun and make great dried flowers. The chocolate scent attracts not only humans, but bees and other insects as well.
If the chocolate smell is driving you crazy, you can take a taste of the stamens of this perennial. They will taste like unsweetened cocoa. They do smell better than they taste!
The perennial seeds of the chocolate flower are milk chocolate colored and will sprout nicely in spring. You can plant them as any other perennial seed, in your garden or sow indoors or simply let nature take it's course.
If you want to enjoy the smell of chocolate right on your pato or deck, try planting this perennial in a Planter. Make sure you use good quality potting soil and that there is drainage at the bottom of the planter. Fertilize with a general fertilizer for flowering perennial plants twice during the season.
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