Best Chocolate Gifts

Enjoy!12 oz of a good quality dark chocolate (use sweeter or milk chocolate for a milder flavor)Melt the chocolate together with the butter in a double boiler (‘au bain marie'), let cool slightly and stir in the egg yolks and the brandy or liqueur.Whip...

Allow yourself the time and pleasure to dream, imagine and design a sensational Chocolate Garden to savor with all your senses. Indulge yourself in creating a garden using plants best for your zone,After selecting an area for your garden and determining...

Sturdier tools cost more, but are likely to last longer, and may make the chore they're designed for easier on the user.Gazing globes are an attractive addition to the landscape. Check how securely handles and other parts are fastened, and that sharp...

That's a lot of dead trees, a fact of which we tree-hugging gardeners should be aware! Should we come out against greeting cards, or just make sure they are recycled or composted? So be kind to your local florist, who's probably having a bad day.been...

Cottage garden colors of cascading greens, pastel pink, lovely lavendar, pale yellow and soft peach accent dramatic chocolate tones. At a recent visit to the Philadelphia Flower Show, I noticed many chocolate plants intermingled and incorporated into...

Give your vine plenty of room to spread and watch the plant so that it does not take over the garden. The quick chocolate vine growth rate has a tendency to dominate the landscape and can easily overpower smaller plants.

The vine produces fruit with seeds that are disbursed by birds. You'll need to start getting rid of chocolate vine rooted portions by pruning them repeatedly as they grow back, using a weed whip.How to control chocolate vine once and for all?

And then I had blooms!I dove into the first bloom nose first, and took a deep sniff. Berlandiera seeds are a little trickier. My plants were a little spindly and sprawling, and I've been advised to try pinching them as they start growing next year.I could...

Your friends will love you for it!Beauty products are easy and fun to make with ingredients from you garden. I don't know a gardener who doesn't love to share what they grow. If you dried any during the growing season, packaged them up in spice containers...

Care of chocolate flower is simple and worthwhile, as the plant provides bright blooms with chocolate stripes underneath the petals and interesting, ornamental brown seedpods.Try growing chocolate flower plants in your garden or flower bed.

Take a hike with your gardener, collect some acorns, and plant a special memory.A small, inexpensive but mighty jar of rooting hormone powder will unleash a Dr. Frankenstein-like, life giving skill in a gardener.

As manufacturing processes improved, and alternatives to the mallow were found, the candy no longer contained the healing properties for coughs and healing wounds.The substitution for mallow sap was gelatin, which finally gave marshmallows a stable form.

As far as the word "chocolate" is concerned, actually quite a bit. Fold in Cool Whip and mix until just blended. Place tablespoons of the mixture on well-greased cookie sheet (takes about 4 cookie sheets).

It doesn't get much easier than that. Trowels are also helpful if you have container plants. Some well-known indoor plants are Spider Plants, Aloe Vera, Orchids, and African Violets.

They had mulched the chocolate pool with cocoa hulls, defining the area with their distinct color and scent.I contacted the Horticulture Center, to request a listing of the plants they used,and they kindly responded by pointing me to their source for...

I like cocoa with 1% milk and 1 tablespoon sugar per serving, myself. It was soon followed by a similar single-serving size Swiss Miss product available in retail stores. Chocolate (still always served as a hot drink) was believed to have many health...

It was badly burned in the fire of 1983. It must have been massive before that, for it is figured to be 700 years old. Pay attention now. The plants are considered suitable forzones 7 and 14-21.

Whether you cut orchids from your own greenhouse or received them as a gift, keeping the attractive blooms looking their best requires a flower preservative. Of sugar, approximately seven or eight drops of hydrogen peroxide and 1 liter of lukewarm water...

The day lily is the Chinese emblem for a mother, which makes it a gift for the becoming a parent. Even black roses symbolize new beginnings; the last stage of grief is acceptance and moving on.Carnations' many colors mean different things in floriography.Give...

They will last a lifetime and the quality is unbeatable. How about a Globe Cage Feeder? There are many styles to choose from. If I had to pick one tool in my tool pouch that I couldn't do without it would have to be theIt weeds, cultivates, scalps, edges,...

The blooms of one flower can rest on the stem of the flower next to it.Pack the flowers close together to prevent them from rearranging during shipment.Place the lid on top of the bottom half of the box.

Bunch the bill up into petals. You want each corner to roll as evenly as possible toward the center.Crumple the fold of the bill to the floral wire. Arrange the dollars to conceal each petal's open sides.Twist evenly so that all the stems are locked in...

Of oil for every 2 cups of seeds. Of water in a bowl. Roast the sunflower seeds for 30 minutes. Allow it to cool on a wire rack.Season the sunflower seeds by tossing them in ½ tsp.

Along with it I usually add a few small pots, a bag of potting soil, and a couple of small hand tools. I won't bother to give you directions to make an envelope, most of you can make your own by just looking at one, so let's assume you have as many envelopes...

Ugh, tax time! Are you wishing that you had a magic money tree? A minor point but one that some readers may find importantMoney Tree art at left by the incomparable "Inky" Used here with permission, Thank you! Inky Art not to be used elsewhere without...

Bright-colored oriental lilies paired with dark purple irises make an attractive arrangement because the dark color tone of the iris allows the lilies to pop. Form flowers are the focal point in an arrangement because they have a distinctive eye-catching...

Do not dry flowers in a damp or moist environment.Prepare a small fabric pouch. When your lilac bushes are in full bloom, capture and preserve their appealing fragrance by making lilac sachets for your linen or clothes closets.