Ep. 170 Gardening at night: Creating gardens to enjoy at night | #GoodGrowing

Do you enjoy spending your evenings outdoors? On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we talk about how you can create a garden to be enjoyed at night. Learn about night-blooming plants that can be incorporated into a ‘night/moon’ garden, landscape lighting, insects that come out at night, and more! 

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  00:28 – Welcome, Ken! Enjoying the unseasonably warm weather?

  03:15 – Gardening by the moon, does it work? 

  06:55 – What are some plants can be grown for ‘night’ or ‘moon’ gardens?

      07:52 – Flowering tobacco

      08:40 – Dragon fruit and night-blooming cereus

  09:36 – What is pollinating these flowers? 

  11:00 – More plants for the night

      11:00 – Angel’s trumpet

      14:35 – Evening-primrose (Oenothera )

      16:38 – Four o’clock

      18:10 – Caladium

      18:46 – Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’

      19:26 – Dusty miller

      20:05 – Moonflower  

  23:46 – Incorporating landscape lighting

  26:56 – Some drawbacks of lights at night

  31:00 – Insects at night

  34:18 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!

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