Explore Exotic Gardening Choose your growing journey.
Seed Starting & Seed Saving
Germination, seed starting, seed saving, propagation and plant-specific guides.
ExploreSeeds
Houseplants & Indoor Tropicals
Care, growing tips and beautiful varieties.
Explore Houseplants
Growing Chocolate
Theobroma cacao guides, resources and more.
ExploreCacao
Rare & Unusual Plants
Distinctive plants, unusual varieties and growing experiments.
Explore Rare Plants
Winter Gardening
Greenhouses, cold frames, winter sowing, frost protection and cold-season growing.
Explore Winter Gardening
Edible Gardening
Vegetables, fruits, herbs and edible plants for a cold-climate garden.
Explore Edible Gardening
A Chocolate Lover's Garden
EXPLORE • GROW • MAKE • ENJOY
Discover the history, lore and how to grow your own chocolate at home. This beautifully illustrated book brings together my 20+ years of real-world experience with Theobroma cacao.
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CHOCOLATE SPEAKING & EVENTS
Invite Sheri to speak about growing chocolate, cacao history, horticulture and more at your garden club, library, conference or special event.
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Growing Chocolate in Indiana
I Grew a Cacao Tree in Indiana - And It Bloomed.
My fascination with Theobroma cacao began in the late 1990s, when I discovered I could grow the tree behind chocolate as a houseplant in Indiana. Over the years, I grew cacao from fresh seed, watched my own tree flower, searched out fresh cacao pods and learned firsthand what this remarkable tropical plant needs to thrive far outside its native climate.
Explore My Cacao StoryA Chocolate Lover's Garden
EXPLORE • GROW • MAKE • ENJOY
Discover the history, lore and how to grow your own chocolate at home. This beautifully illustrated book brings together my 20+ years of real-world experience with Theobroma cacao.
Learn More About the Book
Live Presentation
Bring the Story of Chocolate to Your Next Event
I offer a live chocolate presentation that explores cacao from the plant itself through the fascinating story of how chocolate is grown and made.
With real-world growing experience, cacao plants, pods and educational materials, the presentation gives audiences a closer look at the tropical plant behind one of the world's most familiar foods.
Available for garden clubs, libraries, horticultural groups and special events.
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The Chocolate Lover's Garden!
"The Chocolate Lover's Garden, delivers decades of sweet-toothed imagination. It's a horticultural Hershey's kiss wrapped in research, passion, and dedication to creating a landscape that looks, smells, and tastes like chocolate." - Cavit Ireland, Washington Gardener Magazine
Find Your Next Growing Adventure
Explore Exotic Gardening
Whether you're fascinated by unusual plants, growing your own food, creating beautiful flower gardens or making your garden more welcoming to wildlife, there's always something new to grow and discover.
Rare & Tropical Plants
Discover unusual plants, tropical favorites, houseplants, orchids and ways to grow beyond the ordinary.
Explore Tropical Plants 02Flower Gardening
Grow a garden filled with annuals, perennials, bulbs and beautiful combinations that change with the seasons.
Explore Flower Gardening 03Grow Your Own Food
From vegetables and herbs to fruit, hydroponics and aquaponics, discover practical ways to grow more of what you eat.
Start Growing Food 04Trees, Shrubs & Roses
Add structure, flowers, fragrance and year-round interest with trees, shrubs, roses and other woody plants.
Explore Woody Plants 05Pollinator Gardening
Create a garden that supports butterflies, bees, hummingbirds and other beneficial garden visitors.
Grow for Pollinators 06Tour My Gardens
Step inside the real gardens and growing spaces where ideas are tested, plants are collected and experiments happen.
Visit The Gardens
Fresh, practical gardening ideas from what I am growing, testing and learning right now.
