The Magical Moon Garden

Many night-blooming plants are white, and give a luminous magical appearance in the moonlight. If you plant them in a circle or a crescent shape, when they bloom, you'll have the moon herself right there in your garden.  There are a number of plants that open at night, mix them in with silver-foliaged day bloomers. Plant them close to your house, when you open your windows at night the magic of their fragrance will fill your room.

Night Blooming Plants

• Moonflower: It releases a slightly lemony scent when it opens up, and during the day the white flowers are tightly shut. Some species of this climbing plant, a cousin of the Morning Glory, can get up to eight feet long. The flowers, when open, are around 5 - 6" in diameter.
• Evening Primrose: This perennial spreads rapidly, and can cover a lot of ground for you. The pale pinkish-white flowers open at dusk, and release a sweet aroma.
• Night Phlox: these pretties open up at dusk, and have a fragrance reminiscent of honey or vanilla.
• Evening Stock: the tiny purple and pink flowers aren't very fancy, but they smell divine when they open at night.
• Angel's Trumpet: Another vine, this annual spreads like crazy. Its trumpet-shaped, white flowers have a bell-like appearance when open.
• Night Gladiolus: this plant isn't actually nocturnal, but that's when the creamy yellow flowers smell the strongest -- it's a very spicy scent that's a glorious addition to any night garden.
• Flowering Tobacco
• Four o'clocks

• Dusty Millers
• Silver Thyme
• Lamb's Ears
• Mugwort (Artemesia)
• Silver Sage
• White vegetables
• Lavender cotton
• Russian Sage
• Snow-in-summer

Herbs and Flowers with Lunar Connections

• Camphor
• Eucalyptus
• Gardenia
• Jasmine
• Moonwort
• Sandalwood
• Willow
• Water Lily
• Sleepwort