There are 10 plants that tend to flower only at night. Here’s what they are and how to make your garden a magical place.
In our homes and gardens, there have always been many plants and many flowers, but not all of these tend to show their beauty in the sunlight and there are some that prefer the night.
Although flowers are beautiful to see in the sun, some of them become magical as the light goes down due to some characteristics they have developed that make our garden fairytale- like.
Plants: here are the ones that make our garden magical as they bloom at night
By evolving, these plant species have favored the time of day when the sun goes down to ensure that their pollination takes place without distractions and favoring their opening to insects such as blowflies and moths.
For this reason, some pollinating insects find them attractive and fertilization occurs more quickly than with other flowers as few species are present in the gardens at night.
Among these, there are 10 plants that are among the most beautiful and well-known and that tend to show their colors especially at night and we can all have them in our garden.
The most famous species
The first is the Night Beauty , which is very famous due to the fact that it has petals that tend to become fluorescent in the dark and range from pink to purple, attracting insects through this fluorescence.
Their scent is very characteristic and is completely different from that of the second plant, i.e. Brugmansia , which instead gives off a citrus smell and has bell-shaped, pendulous yellow flowers.
The third species is Ipomea alba , also known as Moon Flower. This flower tends to bloom at night and is a bell with very large and white corollas that emit a characteristic scent only in the evening hours.
An intense scent is also given off by Nicotania, and the flowers tend to open in the evening so as not to be damaged by the heat of the sun, and this plant is also commonly known as ornamental tobacco.
One of the most famous plants is the nocturnal jasmine , known for being perceived by smell from long distances even due to a gust of wind and is characterized by small, green-whitish flowers that can appear blue at night.
Another very famous plant is the Mother of the Night , originally from the USA, it has very large flowers that give off a particular scent, especially on summer nights, as does the Evening Primrose which opens at sunset and appears almost fluorescent in the dark. It has a delicate scent and abundant, yellow corollas.
Among the nocturnal plants there are also varieties of succulents such as Cereus and Selenicerius which have the peculiarity of making flowers bloom that do not last more than 36 hours.
Among the other plants that tend to bloom their flowers at night there are also the Caper and some species of water lilies that prefer to bloom during the night hours. All these plants have difficulty growing in the cold and therefore it is useful to shelter them with straw or fabric during the winter periods.