A Night Garden, or a Moon Garden, is planted with night-blooming flowers. It's meant to be enjoyed at dusk, or the gloaming, and in the moonlight.
Moon Gardens typically have:
- pale flowers and plants that reflect moonlight well
- flowers that smell their best in the evening
1. Evening Primrose
- The blooms open quickly
- yellow flowers open before your eyes.
2. Moonflower
- white or pink flowers (usually white)
- open quickly in the evening
- stay open until after sunrise
3. Datura
- devil’s trumpet
- flowers in shades of pink, purple, yellow, or white
- highly poisonous
4. Brugmansia
- Angel’s trumpet
- more a bush or shrub
5. Night Gladiolus
- generally blooms in late spring to mid-summer
- light-yellow flowers that bloom at night
- spicy fragrance
6. Night Phlox
- midnight candy
- sweet fragrance
- shades of pink, white and purple
7. Night-Blooming Jasmine
- has white blossoms with hints of green
- strong fragrance that is most present at night.
8. Night Scented Orchid
- fragrant blooms release after the sun goes down
9. Nicotiana
- flowers bloom at night
- shades of white, pink, green, or red
- have a strong fragrance that
10. Four O’Clock
- a single flower will sometimes have more than one color
- The colors most often found are white, yellow, pink, red, or magenta
11. Casa Blanca Lily
- fragrant, beautiful additions
- large, white flowers that bloom at night
- reflects the moonlight
- keep in mind that all lilies are toxic to cats and dogs
12. Evening Stock
- purple and white flowers
- the petals spread and come to life at night
13. Tuberose
- blooming flower with a strong fragrance.
- white flowers reflect the moonlight
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