The Mystical Raat Ki Raani Plant Folk lores and Why Your Raat Ki Raani Plant dies?

 The mystical Raat Ki Raani Plant with its creamish fragrant flowers are worth growing!

Beautiful Fragrant Raat Ki Raani flower plant

Tubular shaped small Raat Ki Raani Flowers Bunches

So many buds of Raat ki Raani Flowers plant

Fully loaded and looking soooo happy! with all its traditional lore about snakes and jins staying on this, and so many stories the raat ki raani , Night queen enjoys its stay in many societies. So happy to see this one blooming Awesumly! It is not only a prized possession but the fragrance is heavenly citric and freshens up your mind and soul.  Snakes, Fairies, Angels, dwell upon plants with fragrant blooms. 

Buds on Raat Ki Raani Plant

Yet more so, old grannies used to say white flowers, especially Champa, flower of joy also has the same lores. I do agree on fairies and nature spirits being in the garden but not in a bad way, as they do take care of your garden when you are not there! That’s why my gardens are always green!! Of course only when you are a dedicated loving gardener, even for a few days absence they take care of your plants and it is proved , whenever we go for short trips and watering is skipped, the same plants that go limp in a day without water, survive for a week and spring back when watered! Magic exists if you believe in it! 

One of the most mystical blooms, that still brings discussions when mentioned! The lore about snakes and fairies continues...yet people fascinated by this Awesum plant keep growing it, The Raat Ki raani, Night Queen, Fragrant Jasmine.  Share the love, kindly post queries and comments about Night blooming Jasmine , The Queen of Night, Raat Ki Raani, plant here as the previous post has tons of comments and takes time to load, the comments sharing do help guide us for better ways to garden and flowering. Queen of Night or our commonly known raat ki raani is a fragrant flowering bush. Commonly also known as Night blooming jasmine, night scented jessamine the cestrum nocturnum fowering bush can grow in all climates and is an evergreen flowering bush. After hearing a lot of tales and folk lores about this heavenly fragrant plant the desire to plant this bush in my terrace garden was too strong and this time I decided to add this Raat Raani plant to my family of fragrant jasmines and champa flowering plants. 

The fragrance is heavenly citrus and distinct and can be felt from many houses away especially in the summers when the days are hot and the nights cool. The new entry Raat ki rani plant is growing in container in a place where it gets partial sunlight for some parts of the day. There is a riot of fragrances on our terrace with many plants commanding attention. The plant night blooming jasmine has flowered well and the bush has white tubular flowers growing in a bunches. It seems the plant is very humble and is laden with many fragrant flowers.

Blooming Raat Ki Raani Flowers on Plant

 The plant I hear develops fruits like berries after flowering. It is also known that the raat rani plant cestrum nocturnum has all parts that are poisonous, right from the flowers to the roots to the berries.Have to be careful with my birds and I have planted this beautiful fragrant flowering bush raat ki rani in a container and have kept it in a partially shaded area where birds do not come frequently. Care of raat ki rani flowering plant would include watering regularly and choosing the right place for planting. The plant when skipped watering droops and develops yellow leaves which lead to leaf drop and drying of the plant. The plant after flowering will need dead heading of flowers and trimming to get plenty of healthy blooms. The raat ki rani grows best when trimmed and kept in the size and shape of a bush other wise it grows thin developing a long stem trailing like a climber and taking over the other pots. It look also good when the white flowers grow on the bush and the sight is wonderful to see the round shape of the raat ki rani bush laden with tiny tubular while flowers growing in bunches drooping down with its weight, and of course the heavenly fragrance. I still have to get it clear that the flowers only start spreading fragrance when late evening sun sets in and night breeze blows. There is also a folk lore or belief heard since ages that this raat ki raani attracts snakes, maybe because of its fragrance there may be a host of bees and birds near it! some people also mention growing the Din Ka Raja plant near it to ward off this belief , well till now not experienced , and I doubt all these beliefs, with so many fragrances around champa, jasmine, jai juhi, mogra, tube roses and the many colourful fragrant roses growing on our terrace, I guess I have a strong attraction to these fragrant flowering plants. I believe the angels nature spirits may be happily dancing at night enjoying the heavenly fragrances around our terrace. Welcoming blessings to our home my planting and gardening has brought great feng shui positive energy to our life. 

Why you can't grow, unable to grow,  Raat Ki Raani plant?  I always advice to buy a flowering sapling that has fragrant flowers on it, otherwise you sometimes never see flowers! The breed may be non flowering.
The  Raat ki raani plant does not like direct sunlight, and grows happily in indirect sunlight or maybe direct sunlight for only few hours. You can  trim it for encouraging flowering and also the shape of a more fuller bushy growth.

Sometimes your Raat ki raani plant is attacked by pests, root rot, white fungus and you have to check this immediately other wise it will not make it..

 chose a medium sized plastic container that will retain moisture and allow the plant soil to remain moist for longer time. This helps the plant to grow better.

 Some Important Care for Raat Ki Raani plant during summers-

1) place  plants under full sunlight or partial light for at least few hours.

2) Avoid very dark corners as there is tendency of slugs snails and pests to attack the plant.

3) Water carefully, summers are hot but over watering may lead to root rot.

4) If the new Raat ki Raani plants are giving out stems let them grow in the same pot. When the roots are developed and the plant looks healthy then you can trim them. 

5) Keep checking the plant in summers for pests, and you can add some feeding too nourish and get healthy  flowers.  with beautiful fragrant blooms pests and creatures do love this. 

6) Flowers and  leaves may burn in full sun so partial is best as it loses its fragrance fast in full hot sun. Flowers of Night queen also dry off after flowering and then drop.

7) Very Very important-well draining rich nutrient soil, other wise , we have lost many precious ones over the years due to root rot and even I think rats are the reason. 

It feels amazing that with this Garden blog I receive so many email's that people have actually started gardening, blogging, so many have beautiful gardens than me, and are seriously into gardening businesses too! Those happy emails are blessings, feeling blessed with gratitude and Thank you universe!!

Plant a Garden..Trust me ..life will never be the same! Experience Magic!

Feng shuii activators can enhance your space and you can use this balcony and terrace to activate life luck heavenly luck and amazing blessings. As I always say on my Feng shui-Simple Cures blog  always remember the universe has everything in abundance...you just have to tap this correctly! 

Happy Gardening from Rizwana!

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