While it’s more commonly found in tropical and subtropical regions, growing star anise in your kitchen garden is a feasible ...

Anise grows best in full sun and soil with good drainage. You’ll need about 120 frost-free days to get usable seeds. For most people, that means starting the growing process indoors.

In Guangxi, the nation's biggest star anise grower with 350,000 hectares of farmland devoted to the tree and an annual output of 80,000 tonnes, months of drought have disturbed the growing cycles ...