Interesting history tidbit for when you visit the botanic gardens in POS:

During the 19th and 20th century, Indian indentured labourers who breached their labour contract were forced to work in the gardens - planting and keeping the place beautiful as punishment.

During slavery, slaves also got this punishment.

However, the difference is that indentured labourers were allotted garden plots of their own to cultivate.

They would grow corn, bananas, rice, turmeric and ground provisions.

In their gardens they did not follow the colonial taxonomy {white people way} of planting.

They dabbled into planting according to the seasons with multiple cropping techniques and experimented with grafting and cross-pollinating.