Gardening at night: Creating gardens to enjoy at night |
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- 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!
Skip to what you want to know:
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!
Talking Bats in Illinois with Dr. Joy O'Keefe: • Talking Bats in Illino...
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
Check out the Good Growing Blog: go.illinois.ed...
Subscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: go.illinois.ed...
Any products or companies mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion or endorsement of these products or companies.
--
You can find us on most podcast platforms.
iTunes podcasts.apple...
Stitcher www.stitcher.c...
Tunein tunein.com/pod...
Spotify open.spotify.c...
Vurbl vurbl.com/stat...
Listen notes www.listennote...
Ivy ivy.fm/podcast...
Castbox castbox.fm/cha...
Google podcasts bit.ly/3AiYjTD
Fantastic episode on night gardening and the intriguing world of nocturnal insects! The discussion on plants that thrive in moonlight and the tips on landscape lighting were enlightening. It’s fascinating to learn about the ecosystem’s night shift and how different it is from the daytime. Looking forward to more insights on periodical cicadas in the upcoming episode. Keep up the great work! 😁Love the small blooper keep adding them.
Thank you so much. Really enjoy listening to you both. I have already bought some of the flowers for the Mood Garden I plan on putting in my back yard. Thank you for the interesting discussion. I will be adding some of the plants you both mentioned.
I love the moon flower vines too! They smell so good! They did great for me in Madison, MS. I tried them here in Edmond, OK and it was covered in hornworms! I had no idea that would be a problem. Enjoyed the show! Thanks!
This is so delightful. I'm gardening in St. Louis and DO NOT PLANT TOMATOES :-) (Except I'm going to put a couple in grow bags as an experiment).
Fun episode. Ken, can I please ask the name of the flowering tobacco you referred to? My best guess from the picture shown is Nicotiana sylvestris, but a lot of the species look pretty similar. Thanks.
We planted Nicotiana alata called Old Fashioned Mix
Luna moths don't eat, they have no mouth parts.
Correct. You caught me desperately trying to come up with moth names on the spot. Just to clarify for others reading this, luna moth adults have reduced mouthparts and they do not eat. Adults live for about a week. The larva of luna moth do eat.