Any gardener can plant varieties that are often best viewed in the shadows of night. The popular impatiens is a prime example of a simple, everyday flower that thrives in shady locations and comes in the whitest of whites. Planted in pots on a deck or in masses in the front of the border, impatiens can reflect light from the moon to create beautiful snowy mounds of brightness. Tall, elegant trumpet lilies are magnificent towering in the back of the border with their deep outer petals contrasting with the brightest of whites or golden yellow centres that glow in the moonlight. Many flowering shrubs, peonies, roses, hydrangeas come in bright whites and yellows that will add splashes of brightness to the border in evening.
Bright foliage is another way to create evening glow in the garden.
Lamium, with its two-toned white centred leaves, spreads in the garden bed. Silver licorice, mint-green silvery coloured forms long draping sweeps that illuminate in moonlight. The smell in the night garden is intoxicating. Scent in the evening somehow carries further than in the daytime. Evening bloomers often have such strong fragrance to attract night flying moth pollinators.