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More Plants for the Evening Garden

Adapted from The Evening Garden by Peter Loewer

Below are more plants with flowers that open in the evening, or are particularly attractive or fragrant at night, as well as several that boast white or silvery foliage that will reflect moonlight in your evening garden.
 

Name  Bloom time/flower color or foliage color USDA Hardiness and AHS Heat Zones

Annuals, biennials, and tender perennials
Blazing star
(Mentzelia lindleyi)
summer/golden yellow
 
0-0, 9-1
Dusty miller
(Senecio cineraria)
silver-green to white 8-11, 12-1
Evening snow
(Linanthus dichotomus)
spring/white with purple throat 0-0, 12-1
Licorice plant
(Helichrysum petiolare)
pale gray-green foliage 10-11, 12-1
Night blooming phlox
(Zaluzianskya capensis)
summer/white  11-12, 12-1
Night-flowering catchfly
(Silene noctiflora)
 summer/creamy white
 with pale pink base
0-0, 12-1

Perennials
Bouncing bet, soapwort
(Saponaria officinalis)
summer to fall/
white to pink
3-9, 9-1
Dame’s rocket
(Hesperis matronalis)
 late spring to summer /  lilac, purple, or white 4-9, 9-1
 
‘David’ tall garden phlox
(Phlox paniculata ‘David’)
summer to early fall/ white 4-8, 8-1
English lavender
(Lavandula angustifolia)
summer/purple with gray green foliage 5-8, 8-5
Night blooming ice plant
(Stomatium mustilinum)
 early spring and fall/
 yellow
 
Nottingham catchfly
(Silene nutans)
 summer/white
 
3-8, 8-1
Red yucca
(Hesperaloe parviflora)
summer/pink to red
 
6-11, 12-6
Sand verbena
(Abronia fragrans)
summer to early fall/white 4-10, 12-6
Snow in summer
(Cerastium tomentosum)
 late spring to summer /
 white with silvery foliage
3-7, 7-1
Star flower, sand lily
(Mentzelia nuda)
creamy to golden yellow
 
4-10, 10-6
Vesper iris
(Pardanthopsis dichotoma)
(syn. Iris dichotoma)
greenish white with purple  splotches/late summer
 
5-10, 10-5

Bulbs and Corms
Evening iris
(Hesperantha falcata)
spring/white 10-11, 12-10
Perfumed fairy lily
(Chlidanthus fragrans)
summer/golden yellow
 
9-12, 12-7
Barbary nut
(Gynandriris sisyrinchium)
spring/lavender to
violet-blue
9-10, 10-9
Rain lily
(Zephyranthes candida)
 late summer to early fall/
 white
7-10, 10-7
 

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