A journey to the remote Indian Ocean island reveals the story behind the fragrant, delicious, ubiquitous spice—and the ...

Star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) is a vine with delicate, star-shaped white flowers and a rich, vanilla-like fragrance ... If planting multiple star jasmine plants as ground cover ...

to give your Vanilla Strawberry hydrangea tree the best chance to shine, you will want to start with the proper light conditions. These plants require full sun to partial shade, so you don't want ...

Vanilla is a spice from the pods of the vanilla plant, a vine that attaches to trees and grows in tropical climates. The plant is a member of the orchid family and is the only edible fruit in this ...

Only 1% of the market is served by natural vanilla (Credit: Olga Yastremska/Alamy) Without the discovery of hand-pollination by an enslaved boy 180 years ago, this beloved spice might never have ...

As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Coffee plants and vanilla thrive together beneath the canopy trees ...

which grow draped on trees and shrubs and extend to upwards of 100 feet, flourishing under the soft, dappled light that pokes through a tree canopy. Because the production of real vanilla is so ...

They related these results to the biodiversity as identified by trees, herbaceous plants, birds, amphibians, reptiles, butterflies and ants. The economic and ecological aspects of cultivation were ...