Gardening-Simplified

sun set sky photo  Mogra plants give beautiful fragrant flowers and the time is just right for the buds to open as the sun nears setting the fully loaded blooms open up during night and spread a heavenly fragrance   in the whole garden. New  Mogra Buds about to bloom in evening Fresh Buds on Mogra Plant, original photo by Mrs Rizwana A Double Tagar White Flower Buds on Plant Doubel tagar plant also shows similar flowering buds but the shape is somewhat pointed towards end and the mogra buds have a rounded oval shape. Mogra Plant Bud Close Up Photo by Mrs Rizwana A.Mundewadi I have been observing the mogra plant when during winter it had almost been quiet for a while with only few   leaves on the woody stems. At first glance it looked as dead, dried and no life. then came the tiny fresh green leaves from the sides of the stems and it grew dark green leaves for a month. Feeding it after winter helps to give healthy blooms durin...

Fragrant Raat Rani Plant Cestrum Nocturnum Freshly blooming Raat Ki Raani flowers  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 rani 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 palnt is growing in container in a place where it gets partial sunlight for some parts of the day.When the new plant of raat ki rani was planted it drooped and few leaves also turned yellow and dropped. But the rains hav...