Piperine, the active compound responsible for black pepper's zesty flavor, makes up about 2% to 7% of the spice, an amount that varies by plant. Black pepper allergy is far less common than other food ...

Playing a monotonous sound stimulates the activity of a fungus that promotes plant growth, according to a study released on Wednesday, raising the possibility that playing music could benefit ...

Choose a hard-to-kill plant, like a snake plant. Here's how to take care of one. Whether you live in a small studio or spacious home, snake plants have a unique shape that brings a beautiful desig ...

Flower colours come in shades of pink, purple, red, dark maroon and white, and blooms are often bicoloured. Sweet William is easy to grow from seed and makes an excellent cut flower. Traditionally, ...

The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.

Rosa can be deciduous or semi-evergreen shrubs or scrambling climbers, with usually thorny stems bearing compound pinnate leaves and solitary or clustered flowers. Flowers may be followed by showy red ...

Pumpkins were "such cool things to grow" because they expanded so rapidly, said Mr Paton, who is based in Lymington, Hampshire. This year, his monster weighs in at 1,198kg (2,641lb). Asked about ...

I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga scorpions and bhut jolokias, also known as ghost peppers, whose intensity ...