Backyard Boldness Party Event Planning Takes in Hardwired Rewilding

Seven other garden technology trends of connected greenery, dog-scaping, layered landscapes, makers lifestyle, naTECHure, precious resources and welltality flow throughout successful backyard boldness party event planning.

Connected greenery and naTECHure respectively give plugged-in, to-the-point information on growing plants indoors and outdoors and on using augmented and virtual reality for enlightenment and entertainment. Dog-scaping, layered landscapes and precious resources head outdoor happenings into welltality’s people-, pet- and wildlife-friendly health and hospitality “brownscaped” by compost and xeriscaped for drought tolerance.

Yuccies, “cultural offspring” of hipsters and yuppies personalizing “outdoor living in a way that maintains a sense of home and familiarity,” invent the resulting makers lifestyle. The makers lifestyle juggles “being in sync with nature” and “a healthy, rewarding life” when the technology behind embellishing nightscapes considers environmental impacts and nature’s requirements. 

Agave, cacti, jade plants, Joshua trees, sedum, stone plants and yuccas keep supplemental watering schedules minimal because of succulent plant tolerances of low humidity and moisture. They lead to educationally entertaining backyard boldness party event planning by the compatibility of grey-green, thickened shapes and textures with illuminated nightscapes and with night-blooming plants.

Choices in luminous, night-flowering moon garden plants may require adjustment according to the types of pollinators that will be the least disruptive to family and friends. Master gardeners and master naturalists note in their ecological science-based, environmental education-related presentations and projects that bats, beetles, flies, gnats and moths predominate as night-active pollinators. Moths, most popular of night-time beneficials, offer pollinating services to almond verbenas, Cape jasmines, devil’s trumpet, four o’clocks, large-root morning glories, moonflowers, silk squashes and spider-flowers. 

LanternAsia’s giants at Norfolk Botanical Garden in Virginia and Nightscape’s electronic music and laser projections at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, produce no point-of-use pollution.

Some environmentalists question the ecological sense, but not the beauty, of such shows when electricity is generated by other than geothermal, hydroelectric, solar or wind power.

Downsized equivalents remain expensively enjoyable diversions incorporated within backyard boldness party event planning for neighborhood parties and on posh estates and social areas within exclusive communities.

The KISS acronym for Keep It Simple, Silly-pilly! serves as nature- and technology-friendly guidelines for night-lovers through electro-luminescent tape, in-ground and touch-sensitive lighting and light-emitting diodes. Artificial lighting from exterior and interior lights, LEDs and luminescent tape and natural lighting from fireflies, moonlight and moonlit night-bloomers turn underappreciated dayscapes into nightly wonderlands. 

My special thanks to:

• Talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the Internet;
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for superior on-campus and on-line resources.

Allen, Dr. Charles. “Making a Moon-Moth Garden.” State-By-State Gardening Newsletters > Articles.

• Available @ http://www.statebystategardening.com/state.php/newsletters/stories/making_a_moon-moth_garden

Nightscape: A Light and Sound Experience.” Longwood Gardens > Events & Performances > Displays & Exhibitions > Upcoming Events.

• Available @ http://longwoodgardens.org/nightscape

“2016 Garden Trends Report: Syncing with Nature.” Garden Media Group.