A Comprehensive Guide To Creating A Moon Garden: Must-Have Plants And Features For Your Moon Garden

Silver foliage, white flowers, and fragrant blooms can create a show-stopping dreamy display in your garden.

We often grow stunning flowers and plants to admire during the daytime. But nothing can be more dreamy than strolling through a garden after sundown and enjoying the ethereal glow of foliage under the moonlight. The concept of a moon garden may seem like a fairy tale, but you can create it too. Designing a moon garden involves picking the right plants while sticking to a white and silver color palette, and adding some calming artificial features for therapeutic effects. Read on to explore some must-have plants and features for your moon garden.

Plant night bloomers

Most flowers tuck their petals during dusk, and as a result—you are left with a garden full of blooms with closed petals—whose beauty cannot be admired at night. If you plant night-blooming flowers, you can enjoy a spectacular sight at night. Some of the most gorgeous night bloomers are moonflower, four o’clock, night-blooming jasmine, evening primrose, and more.

Focus on white flowers.

Your dreamy moon garden will glow at night if you add plenty of white flowers. The moonbeams will illuminate the snow-like white petals against the dark backdrop of the night. Of all the colors, white blooms will be more visible to your eyes. The moment your eyes get adjusted to the dark surroundings, the pale blooms will glow up under the moonlight, adding a mystical vibe to your garden. You can plant petunias, snowdrops, Shasta daisies, nicotiana, and hydrangea.

Add fragrant plants

Every garden smells pleasant during the daytime, but for your moon garden, you need plants that withhold their soothing aroma even at night, filling up the air. When your sense of sight depletes after dark, your other senses will function more actively in your moon garden. So here are some refreshing and aromatic flowers you can add to your moonlit garden: peonies, white roses, bearded Iris, mock orange, lilac, and more.

Add soothing sounds

Your sense of smell heightened in the dark, and so does your sense of hearing. Decorate your moon garden with rustling ornamental grass and by installing musical wind chimes. Transform your garden into a soothing musical paradise to help ease your mind after a busy day at work.

Install a water feature.

Add a small pond near your moon garden, and you can enjoy the rippling water shining bright under the silver moonlight. Or if you want to enjoy glittering, splashing specks of light, install a fountain. Water features generate mesmerizing sounds and add elegance too.

Add these features to your dreamy moonlit oasis and relax after dark.