The winner: Jasmine flower, 83/100. Runner-up: Yarrow at 79. Lowest upkeep of the qualifiers: Lily at 73.
A moon garden is white bloom plus evening scent. Admission needs documented white cultivars and a real fragrance record; the ranking rewards the scent that carries at dusk and the season it lasts.
The picks
The flowers that won
The top score, plus the qualifier that asks least of you.
4 rules, 100 points, no opinions. Every line reads one field of the table.
Scent that carries at dusk35 pointsroom-filling scent 35; noticeable up close 25; light 14 Read from: how strong the scent is on record.
Evenings per year it performs25 pointseight or more months 25; six to seven 22; four to five 19; three 12; two 6; one 3; no bloom data 6 Read from: the months it is in bloom.
Care while it grows20 pointslow upkeep 20; middling 11; demanding 3; sources disagree, we average the range; no rating 9 Read from: how much upkeep extension guides report.
Deer walk gardens at night too20 pointsRutgers A, rarely damaged 20; B 14; C 6; D, deer candy 0; not rated 9 Read from: the Rutgers deer rating.
Not ranked here: no documented white cultivars: the moon garden's one rule; no documented fragrance: scent is half the moon garden.
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The leaderboard
The top ten
The 10 highest of 35 that qualified. Tap any score to open the lines behind it.
Not qualifying is a verdict too: the table simply says this question is not theirs.
no documented fragrance: scent is half the moon gardenTulips, Dahlia, Irises and 32 more
no documented white cultivars: the moon garden's one ruleSunflower, Black‑eyed Susan, Catmint and 12 more
The winner's badge
Generated by the ranking above, and re-scored whenever the table changes.
Jasmine flower
The badge is generated by this ranking, not awarded by hand. When the
table changes, it re-scores itself.
How we rank
We keep one table of 85 flowers,
with 25 documented facts each, drawn from university and extension sources. Every ranking is
a published formula worth 100 points; tap any score and it unfolds into the lines that made
it. A flower that does not fit the question is not scored lower: it is excluded, and the reason is
shown. When the table changes, every score and stamp updates itself.
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