Some people plant moon gardens. The idea is to grow plants with leaves and flowers of white, silvery and gray that will catch the moonlight - and look white and "lunar" white even in daylight or electric illumination.
Popular spring plants for a moon garden:
- Daffodil (Narcissus) ‘Mount Hood’, ‘Cheerfulness,’ or ‘Stainless’
- Tulip ‘String of Pearls’, ‘Maureen,’ or ‘Mount Tacoma’
- Hyacinth ‘White Pearl’ or ‘Carnegie’
- Bleeding Hearts ‘Alba’
- Candytuft
- Lilies of the Valley
- Sweet alyssum
- white snapdragons,
- some iris, delphiniums, lupines, crocuses and snowdrops.
To keep going into summer:
- Coneflower ‘White Swan’
- Hydrangea ‘Annabelle’ or ‘White Swan’
- Butterfly bush ‘White Profusion’
- Moonflowers
- ‘Alba’ four o’clocks (Mirabilis jalapa)
- White flowering tobacco (Nicotiana alata)
- ‘Casa Blanca’ Oriental lilies
- Rose ‘Iceberg’, ‘Lace Cascade’,‘Sally Holmes Antique Climbing’ or ‘Lady Banks White’
Late Summer/ Fall Flowers:
- Clematis ‘Sweet Autumn’
- Dahlias ‘White Perfection’ ‘Eternal Snow’ and ‘Playa Blanca’
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