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Moonflower
Moonflower is one of the most romantic plants you can grow in the garden. It's a statuesque, ideal evening-garden plant bearing large trumpet-shape flowers that unfurl in the evening (or on overcast days) and stay open until the sun rises. Some are sweetly fragrant when open. This beautiful plant is also very heat- and drought-resistant. Beware: It's quite poisonous, especially the seeds.
Moonflower can be found as an established plant in garden centers. Plant outdoors after all danger of frost has passed. Give it moderate moisture and fertilizer. You can also train it into a treelike plant along a stake, especially in a large container. Datura reseeds freely to the point of being invasive in some conditions.
- Light:
- Sun
- Plant Type:
- Annual
- Plant Height:
- 1-5 feet tall
- Plant Width:
- 1-4 feet wide
- Landscape Uses:
- Containers,Beds & Borders
- Special Features:
- Flowers,Fragrant,Drought Tolerant,Deer Resistant,Easy to Grow
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Cardoon
For a no-fail combination you can enjoy after the sun goes down, mix the bold, silvery foliage of drought-resistant cardoon with moonflower.
Spider FlowerEnjoy soft scents wafting through the evening air with a combination of moonflower and cleome (especially white-flowering cleome, which is most visible at night).
Flowering tobaccoNicotiana is another delightfully nocturnally fragrant plant to enjoy with moonflower.
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This plant is now being made illigal here in Oklahoma and probably everywhere else soon... Kids are using it to get high and it almost killed 3 kids last week. : (
8/16/2011 01:41:00 PM Report AbusePersonally I would let them dry, and plant them as soon as possible after they have dried but that's my own opinion, especially on this plant. I haven't started growing a moonflower plant yet but I hope to this summer. Good luck growing one!
5/9/2011 11:19:47 AM Report AbuseHi! Wait until the pods have turned brown and dry to the touch. That's when the seeds should be ready to harvest. By the way: These plants are notoriously good at self-seeding, so you can often just leave the pods on the ground in fall and you'll get seedlings popping up in spring!
8/24/2010 05:27:28 PM Report AbuseI have a moonflower plant. The seed pods are growing, and I need to know when I can collect seeds from them. Do they have to dryout in late fall or winter or can I pick them now and let them dry? Thanks
8/6/2010 10:03:37 AM Report AbuseAdd your comment
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