Night Sky “Galaxy” Flowers Will Make Your Yard Feel Out of This World

You’ve mastered how to keep houseplants alive and how to grow a flower garden. If you’re ready to level up to your next gardening challenge, we have your next project right here: growing and caring for night sky petunias, the flowers that will make your yard feel totally out of this world.

Night sky petunias are an award-winning petunia variety with a stunning pattern. Rather than the regular pinks and purples you see in everyone else’s garden, they’re speckled with little white dots that resemble the stars in the night sky. No two blooms have exactly the same pattern, so it’s truly like having your own little backyard planetarium.

Growing the galaxy flowers may require a bit of trial and error. As GrowerTalks notes, night sky petunias can be “environmentally unstable,” meaning their dotted patterns change depending on the temperature and the growing conditions in which they’re planted. Generally, cooler temperatures will yield more white speckles, and warmer temperatures will yield more purple.

If you want to try to grow them for yourself, you can buy seeds on Etsy.

Night sky petunias flower all spring and summer long, lasting until the first frost. You’ll have the most success if you plant them when it’s a bit colder outside, so start planning next spring’s garden now.