You can still enjoy your garden, even in the still of the night. Night gardens are similar to white gardens in that night garden plants feature flowers, fruits, and leaves with a light color which serve to reflect moonlight. Night garden plants do not have to be white. Any light color will do. In addition to color, night garden plants use fragrant flowers to perfume the night air. Some night garden plants are used to create sound when the wind blows through them.
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Cardamine bulbosa 'Snow Showers'
Item #: 13874
Zones: 6a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 2.5" pot (7.9 fl. oz/233 ml)
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Carex oshimensis 'Everillo' PP 21,002
Item #: 9802
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Cestrum parqui
Item #: 4794
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Cestrum parqui 'Orange Peel'
Item #: 5981
Zones: 7b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 96" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Chamaerops humilis var. argentea
Item #: 4280
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 180" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Morocco
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Chrysanthemum 'Gethsemane Moonlight'
Item #: 9818
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $19.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Clematis hexapetala 'Mongolian Snowflakes'
Item #: 10603
Zones: 4a to 7b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: China, Eastern Asia, Korea, Mongolia, Siberia Russia
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Collinsonia punctata 'Yellow Creek'
Item #: 8912
Zones: 5a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $23.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Colocasia esculenta 'Elepaio'
Item #: 5370
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Eastern Asia
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Colocasia esculenta 'Maui Sunrise' PP 31,175
Item #: 14267
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Eastern Asia
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $26.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Crambe maritima
Item #: 14328
Zones: 5b to 7b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Denmark, Europe, France, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum americanum 'St. Marks'
Item #: 6038
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum 'Antares'
Item #: 9910
Zones: 6b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 42" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum x digweedii 'Mermaid'
Item #: 9911
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum 'Ellen Bosanquet'
Item #: 2193
Zones: 6b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum x herbertii 'Schreck'
Item #: 8446
Zones: 7a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum hildebrandtii 'Pinwheel'
Item #: 6150
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Madagascar
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum 'Improved Peach Blow'
Item #: 8026
Zones: 7a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $39.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum jagus 'Maya Moon'
Item #: 17461
Zones: 8a to 11
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Africa, Madagascar
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum 'Liberty Bells'
Item #: 7565
Zones: 7b to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 42" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum ligulatum 'Shooting Stars'
Item #: 6154
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Madagascar
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum 'Little Lugger'
Item #: 11973
Zones: 7b to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum 'Sunbonnet'
Item #: 11970
Zones: 6a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 42" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $36.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outCrinum 'Super Ellen'
Item #: 8025
Zones: 6a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 72" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $39.00Regular priceUnit price per
More Information About Night Gardens
Here at Plant Delights Nursery, we have an enormous on-line plant catalog and have searched through it to create this mini-catalog of night garden plants that look or smell great when the sun goes down.
Often, night gardens are designed with supplemental lighting that is used to highlight a tree and create interesting shadows. If you design your garden sans electric lights, it may also be called a moon garden.
Night gardens have a long history of use in Asia as far back as the 1600s. The Japanese liked to plant light-colored varieties of chrysanthemum in a garden with white rocks and reflecting pools to reflect as much moonlight as possible. In ancient India, the mogul emperors used fragrant night garden plants like lilium, jasminum, and narcissus to perfume the air.
Night gardens are especially useful to those with busy lives who may not be able to slow down and smell the roses until after the sun has gone down. So if you have a busy schedule, try planting night garden plants so that you have a place to relax after dark when you finally get to slow down.
Those of you with small children may also like to have a night garden as a model of the one in the childrens' TV show In the Night Garden. Your kids can have a calm and peaceful place to meet Iggle piggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka...at least in their dreams.