Moon Gardens Are Newest Trend That Takes Your Garden From Day to Night

It’s time to start thinking about getting your garden ready for spring, and with the season comes new (and timeless) garden trends. If you haven’t heard of a moon garden before, the idea is both straightforward and unique. A moon garden allows you to focus not only on how your plants will look in the daytime, but also at night.

This isn’t just about lighting, though. A moon garden should include plants that look different at night than they do during the day.

This means choosing plants that reflect the light of the moon; white and light-colored plants can literally glow under moonlight, creating a garden that feels magical as soon as the moon rises.

If you’re looking to create your very own moon garden in your backyard, there are a few key elements you’ll need to consider when picking out plant varieties. Fortunately, moon gardens are actually fairly easy to create, as they don’t necessarily require you to rearrange the entire layout of your garden.

With any moon garden, white or silver plant varieties will always work best. They become luminescent underneath the light of the moon, giving off a glow that almost makes each bloom provide a light of its own. The fullest white flowers will give off the most impressive reflections. 

You should also consider the height of each bloom in your garden. White butterfly bushes or hydrangeas will grow high and provide staggered blooms on their bushes, while white tulips will stand a little lower and show off individual blooms of light.

Creating a garden that has elements of white that stand both high and low will give your moon garden an impressive, mystical look.

Moon gardens are also typically filled with plants that give off a nice scent, which adds to the magic of a garden that comes alive at night.

You’ll only need a few plants to create scents that will carry throughout your garden; jasmine, honeysuckle, or roses are just a few white plant varieties that can help scent your moon garden.

Just because you’re planning on creating a moon garden doesn’t mean you have to leave out colorful blooms, either—this will make your garden look good in the daytime, too. Layering white plants with colorful plants will help keep things vibrant during the day without making your garden look like it has big gaps at night.

Again, staggering plants from high to low will help fill in any gaps left by colorful plants that don’t glow under the moonlight.

Other elements of a moon garden that can help reflect the light of the moon include a small pond or viewing pool or even reflective garden decorations. Water, of course, will create the best reflection of a moon overhead; shallow water lights up a little bit under the moon, creating a central element for your garden.

If you were a fan of the garden mirror trend, you’ll find that mirrored garden spheres help to provide extra light and reflection at night (and they still look amazing during the day, too).