Garden Of The Night
For all the poetic and magical reasons to plant your garden with evening in mind , there are good, practical reasons to do it too. If you work full time, the evening is likely to be the time when you are able to wander out into your garden, glass of wine in hand. It seems a shame to plant your garden with colors that look their best in the middle of the day, and then miss this peak time entirely. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to customize your garden so that it looks its best at night! While there are colors and plants that work better in the daytime, there is a whole set of others that peak at twilight, and the twilight plants have some magical qualities : they tend to be pale, silver, or white and catch every last ray of light and reflect it back at you. They are also night scented: n...