Evening Gardens
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The July/August issue of The American Gardener has a wonderful cover story on “Pleasures of the Evening Garden” by Peter Loewer. He’s written more than 15 gardening books, including “The Evening Garden.”
The magazine, a good one, is published by the American Horticultural Society. Here’s a link to the Web site, but you have to be a member to read the whole article.
I’ve learned from my own experience that certain colors work well as daylight begins to fade.
White really does light up the night. Here are some photos of my ‘Annabelle’ hydrangeas at dusk one night earlier this summer.
Pale violet and lilac colors also light up in the evening. Petunias, I think on the same night:
And hostas:
Chartreuse works well, too.
My next challenge is to plant more things with nighttime aromas: angel’s trumpets (brugmansia), moonflowers, nicotiana and evening stock. Perfect for an evening by the pool some day…
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
