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

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205
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Episode Show Notes / Description
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! 
 
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  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!
  
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