Do you need sun in the daytime? What do you put in it?
I know they're always white plants. I have night blooming jasmine, but unfortunately, it's so hot when it blooms (even at night) I can't sit and enjoy it
Anyone ever planted a nightblooming white garden?
I love my night blooming jasmine! I have it planted all around my house and driveway and at least one of them is usually blooming. My dinner guests always ask "What smells so good?" when they get out of their cars.
Here, mine blooms through until the first frost and they need plenty of sun in the day time. I also have moon vine, which looks so pretty at night (and makes up for the non-show by the NBJ). You can actually watch the flowers open around dusk. I keep trying to grow night blooming cereus without much luck but, they are so pretty and heavenly smelling that I'm not giving up.
I also have night blooming jasmine and it is huge and full of blooms. I want to plant more. Mine gets around 5 hours of morning sun and does well. Mine is in the ground and the root system is huge. It froze back a year or two ago and came back. I love it.
Years ago I bought a book called 'Evening Gardens' by Cathy Wilkinson Barash, Chapters Publishing Ltd. 1993. Don't know if it's still available. Altho not written solely for white blooms, she has a chapter on White Flowers and one on Night Bloomers. She also adds one on using silver foliage such as Dusty Miller, Artemisia, Lamb's Ears, Caladiums, etc.
In Zone 9, you should easily be able to grow Daturas, Night Blooming Cereus, and brugsmansia You'll find, however, that especially with the cereus, the botanical naming system is somewhat in dispute. Of course, never let that stop you.
She has a picture of a white evening primrose, the Missouri primrose, that blooms around 8:30.
Also mentioned are Flowering Tobacco, gardenias, moonflowers, tuberoses.
Seems like a lot of these can take the heat of Zone 9. Start searches on DG and on the 'net in general. I'm sure you'll find plants for your area as well as the details for growing them.