for moon gardens Certain flowers and plants with specific colors and nocturnal habits are suited to moon gardens. Among these, lilies, angel's trumpet, sweet rocket, moonflower, four o'clock flower, bearded iris, night gladiolus, evening primrose, magnolia, snowdrop, foxglove, Japanese dogwood, garden phlox, lamb's ear, silvermound, peonies, and common lilac are all commonly cultivated plants in moon gardens. White flowers are especially suited to moon gardens, but green, pink and other pale colors are also common. Silver, white or variegated leaves will work as well. Night bloomers Some of the night-blooming plants have names indicating this behavior, such as four o'clocks, evening primrose, night phlox, and moonflower. Other night-blooming flowers include foamflower, tuberose, night-blooming cereus, night-blooming lotus, night gladiolus, Nottingham catchfly, and chocolate daisy. The citron daylily, unlike most day lilies, opens in midafternoon and stays open through the night. Night scents While daytime pollinators use vision to locate their sources of nectar, night pollinators such as moths and bats have poor vision and operate in low light levels. Therefore they are attracted to strongly scented blossoms. In response to changing light levels, plants such as Night-scented stock (Matthiola longipetala) pump cells to open blooms as night falls, and close up again when daylight returns. Gardenias (Gardenia jasminoides) put out stronger scents at night, and Night-blooming Jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) has such a strong scent it is recommended to plant it a bit away from the house. Silver foliage Silver-leafed plants are good reflectors and contrast for low light levels, such as Silver ragwort (Senecio cineraria), Texas sage (Leucophyllum frutescens), and several plants in the Artemisia family. Notable gardens Gardens open to the public which have moon gardens, and notable gardens originally designed and constructed with a moon garden, include: Mehtab Bagh in India Sonnenberg Gardens in New York Four Arts Botanical Gardens in Florida Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Florida Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens in Texas The Gardens on Spring Creek in Colorado San Francisco Botanical Garden in California Other uses of the term Sometimes a garden is named a 'moon garden' because it features a significant structural element such as a moon gate, moon window or moon bridge, however the purpose there is different than a garden designed for nighttime experience. Moon gates and moon windows are constructed to frame a view, have a cultural or spiritual meaning, or may symbolically represent the moon. Moon bridges