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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Nerium oleander 'Mathilde Ferrier'
Item #: 3785
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 96" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Ophiopogon japonicus 'Snow Globe'
Item #: 12977
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 2" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $23.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Sold outPachysandra procumbens 'Angola'
Item #: 6488
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'America'
Item #: 15047
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Angel Cheeks'
Item #: 15766
Zones: 3a to 8a
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 28" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Bartzella'
Item #: 7187
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 1.6 gal. (6 L)
Regular price $75.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Sold outPaeonia 'Buckeye Belle'
Item #: 17456
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Cora Stubbs'
Item #: 4494
Zones: 3a to 8a
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 32" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Coral Charm'
Item #: 6186
Zones: 3a to 8a
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Do Tell'
Item #: 17030
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 32" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Gay Paree'
Item #: 10372
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia japonica
Item #: 2397
Zones: 5a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Julia Rose'
Item #: 18458
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 1.6 gal. (6 L)
Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Kansas'
Item #: 5653
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Krinkled White'
Item #: 6827
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Miss America'
Item #: 10715
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia ostii 'Feng Dan Bai'
Item #: 2527
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Raspberry Sundae'
Item #: 8973
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Red Charm'
Item #: 6392
Zones: 4a to 8b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Paeonia 'Scarlet O'Hara'
Item #: 5652
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Phlox divaricata 'Blue Ribbons' PP 34,928
Item #: 13029
Zones: 3a to 8a
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Phlox paniculata 'John Fanick'
Item #: 7383
Zones: 3a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Phlox paniculata 'Opalescence' PP 33,295
Item #: 17114
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Phlox paniculata 'Thai Pink Jade' PP 22,961
Item #: 13504
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular 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.