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Illuminate Your Landscape Gardens by Moonlight
Perfect for twilight listing photos!
Photos courtesy Southern Living and Encore Azaleas
Invited Guest Contributor Melissa Tracey
Light up your evening garden with illuminating plants that glow in the moonlight!
Gardens are in full bloom, with more than half of American households saying they maintain one at home.
Gardens, like other home features, have many different styles. Showcase your backyard: consider a “celestial garden,” which is inspired by astrology and astronomy. A celestial garden mimics the night sky and absolutely shines at night! What could be lovelier!
These gardens feature glowing orbs of light. Here, plants with silver and white hues capture the starlit gleam that characterizes a celestial or ‘moon’ garden. How special is that?
Here are 3 characteristics of a celestial garden:
Shimmery star- and moon-inspired plants. Varieties with a soft silver and white glow are the “stars” in your celestial garden. The “Sterling Moon” Lunar Lights Begonia, a shade-loving plant with mint and silver leaves will work well in the evening light.
Dusty Miller, silver mound artemisia, and the succulent Skyscraper Senecio also shimmer with a silvery hue. (Your garden center faculty will know best what to advise. Also consider getting suggestions from Bucks Gardens in Far Hills, or the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown.)
White is the last color visible to the human eye as the sun sets each night, with white blooms catching our eye as moonbeams and starlight fall on white petals. “To help your celestial garden bloom month after month, select white flowers with multi-seasonal blooms, such as Encore Azaleas.” The Autumn Moonlight variety has white ruffled azalea blooms in spring, summer, and fall. Gorgeous any time of the day or night! I think I'm in love!
Glowing starbursts. “Look for blooms with a flower head, in a shape called an ‘umbel.” (Sort of like an umbrella). These fabulous blooms, which include the Ever White and Ever Twilight varieties, fan out with multiple small flowers that seem to pop like bursting stars in all directions! Simply fantastic and they will glow in the evening!
Carve out a star-studded entryway. With its thin, towering stems and explosive flowers, a celestial garden is well-suited to line a path or entryway of your home.
Another popular placement is in a secluded corner of a yard, where the specialty lighting and unique plant palette can anchor a bench or hammock to create an outdoor room. Make your celestial garden the * star * of your landscape! Make your home special!
And remember- to showcase your home's best features, staging your home outdoors is every bit as important as staging indoors! You only get one chance to make a first impression!
Happy Gardening!
For the love of thinking about your home forward,
Adding value for my clients and loving where we live!
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