Moon garden

[2] In India, the Mehtab Bagh, meaning 'moonlight garden', was built around 1530 by Emperor Babur and later became part of the Taj Mahal complex.

[3]: 20,28,54 "Moonlight gardens were a tradition enjoyed by Indians before the Mughals; after sheltering from the day's heat, they took their ease amid fragrant white blossoms and flowering trees in the cooler night air.

The Mughals added pools and water devices to their moonlight gardens and outlined the raised paths, platforms, and pavilions with small oil lamps.

[1]: 13  Nighttime pollinators, such as moths and bats, are attracted to blooms open at night, strong scents and reflectiveness, and may be visible or audible in the garden.

[8] Among these, lilies, angel's trumpet,[6] sweet rocket, moonflower,[6] four o'clock flower,[6] bearded iris,[5] night gladiolus, evening primrose, magnolia, snowdrop, foxglove, Japanese dogwood, garden phlox, lamb's ear, silvermound, peonies,[5] and common lilac[5] are all commonly cultivated plants in moon gardens.

[9] The wan colors of Moonbeams bloom in Moon gardens planted with lilies, angel's trumpet, sweet rocket, and the like, all of them white or nearly so, or prized for their nocturnal habits.

The giant Moon flower, evening's answer to the morning glory, opens its white petals at day's end, as do its companions the four-o'clocks, the vesper iris, and the night gladiolus.

[1]: 26–27 In response to changing light levels, plants such as Night-scented stock (Matthiola longipetala) pump cells to open blooms as night falls, and close up again when daylight returns.