Ep. 170 Gardening at night: Creating gardens to enjoy at night | #GoodGrowing

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!  Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xWbZlTZbgPI  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: https://youtu.be/9fLLNtNHkpI  Contact us! Chris Enroth: [email protected] Johnson: [email protected]   Check out the Good Growing Blog: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingSubscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingsubscribe 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 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-growing/id1446630377   Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/good-growing   Tunein https://tunein.com/podcasts/Gardening/Good-Growing-p1187964/ Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/202u3siWExE1tTqrVgtmCR   Vurbl https://vurbl.com/station/good-growing-4pljnNlUtyG/   Listen notes https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/good-growing-chris-enroth-cHLPMWpvEOG/   Ivy https://ivy.fm/podcast/good-growing-167902   Castbox https://castbox.fm/channel/Good-Growing-id4302614?country=us   Google podcasts https://bit.ly/3AiYjTD