Vanilla bean orchids are challenging to grow and recommended for experienced gardeners due to their high-maintenance needs. Successful cultivation requires careful attention to light, humidity, and ...

A: Vanilla orchids are actually vining plants with glossy, very attractive foliage. I’ve grown a couple on tree fern poles from the nursery, and my wife and I have been to a vanilla plantation on the ...

If you've found yourself falling in love with the delicate beauty of orchids, you're in luck: There are a lot of different plants to choose from! There are orchids native to every continent except ...

Here in Hawaii, we can grow lots of wonderfully exotic tropical plants year round. The vanilla orchid vine is one of these that requires special care but can produce lovely flowers and a tasty product ...

This past holiday season, with all the baking and beverages, my household went through a lot of vanilla extract! And when I went hunting for a vanilla bean, I was shocked by the cost. It got me ...

Colorful and elegant with an air of exotic mystery, the orchid isn’t exactly the first ingredient that comes to mind when tossing a salad. Yet orchids have been used for cooking perhaps longer than ...

Vanilla planifolia produces dozens of edible vanilla beans (really the seed pod), each of which contains thousands of tiny black fragrant seeds. G. Tasker Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Did you ...

If you’re baking Christmas cookies, don’t be enticed by the warm fragrance of vanilla. It enhances cakes and cookies, but tastes lousy straight out of the bottle. I know this because I didn’t listen ...