Chocolate Cosmos

not add a little cocoa bliss to your garden? While growing actual cacao (the source of chocolate) outside of the tropics is tricky, plenty of other plants will let you indulge in the rich color and scent of chocolate. These varieties offer dark reddish-brown flowers and foliage or cocoa-scented blooms.

With a name like chocolate, you can guess this plant will make a decadent garden addition. The burgundy-maroon flowers both look and smell like. The blooms keep coming all summer long on tall stems.

Name: Cosmos atrosanguineus

Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 30 inches tall and 18 inches wide

Zones: 7-10, but commonly grown as an annual

Chocolate Flower

Native to North America, is another beautiful plant sure to with its cocoa-scented blooms. The small, daisy-shape yellow blossoms appear from spring and early summer.

Name: Berlandiera lyrata

Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 8 inches tall and wide

Zones: 7-9

Chocolate Vine

Fill the air with a chocolaty aroma by covering a wall or arbor in your garden with a . This offers purple or white chocolate-scented flowers in late spring. The hand-shape foliage lends the landscape a tropical air all summer and fall.

Name: Akebia quinata

Growing Conditions: Full sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil

Size: Climbs to 30 feet

Zones: 5-9

Hot Cocoa Rose

Though it's not chocolate-scented, Hot Cocoa rose does offer fun coloring. The ruffled petals of this are burgundy-red with unusual brown undertones. It makes a and gives off a moderate fragrance.

Name: Hot Cocoa Rosa 'WEKpaltlez'

Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 8 inches tall and wide

Zones: 7-9

Dark Chocolate Coleus

'Dark Chocolate' earned its moniker because of its foliage: The leaves are a rich dark purple color with a slight brown undertone. This gorgeous also makes a terrific houseplant if you.

Name: Solenostemon scutellarioides 'Dark Chocolate'

Growing Conditions: Sun or shade and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 30 inches tall and 24 inches wide

Zones: Annual

Chocolate Mint Coleus

Add drama to your shade garden with this gorgeous. It bears rich purple-red foliage edged crisply in lime green. And as a bonus, you can months if you have a bright spot for it.

Name: Solenostemon scutellarioides 'Chocolate Mint'

Growing Conditions: Shade and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 20 inches tall and 14 inches wide

Zones: Annual

'Chocolate' Joe Pye Weed

Attract butterflies to your yard with 'Chocolate' , an easy-care perennial that's a fun version of a . Named for its purple-brown foliage, 'Chocolate' bears contrasting white flowers.

Name: Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate'

Growing Conditions: Sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide

Zones: 4-9

'Sweet Hot Chocolate' Daylily

Daylilies are among the, so you'll definitely want to add 'Sweet Hot Chocolate' to your garden. This variety bears amazing mahogany-purple flowers in summer. The blooms are edible (but sadly, they don't taste cocoa). Another option is the 'Chocolate Candy' daylily, which also has chocolaty flowers.

Name: Hemerocallis 'Sweet Hot Chocolate'

Growing Conditions: Sun and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 24 inches tall and wide

Zones: 3-10

'Milk Chocolate' Sedge

With wispy, grasslike foliage, 'Milk Chocolate' makes an intriguing textural contrast in the landscape. This evergreen (everbrown?) perennial has that look most stunning when planted in groups.

Name: Carex comans 'Milk Chocolate'

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 14 inches tall and 30 inches wide

Zones: 7-9, but can be treated like an annual

'Chocolate' Sunflower

Big, bold, annual is already a garden favorite. Now imagine the deep, velvety brown blooms of 'Chocolate' sunflower. This variety bears big flower heads surrounded by golden-brown petals that look especially stunning when.

Name: Helianthus annuus 'Chocolate'

Growing Conditions: Sun and well-drained soil

Size: To 48 inches tall and 24 inches wide

Zones: Annual