The best hardy geranium varieties (aka cranesbills) provide months of color and effective ground cover. In the last 50 or 60 years, these dependable jewel-hued bloomers have become some of our most ...

Geraniums have long been a stalwart of the British garden - DEB PERRY There are many reasons why geraniums have long been a stalwart of the British garden. Perennially popular due to their easygoing, ...

Geraniums are a classic summer annual in our area, but come in all shapes and sizes. Actually, the summer annuals we call geraniums are known as pelargonium. Hardy, perennial geraniums are native ...

What’s in a name? The name geranium brings several things to mind: The stalwart red blooms we see everywhere from memorial plants marking a loved-ones grave to mass borders in ahome landscape to a ...

Question: I just found out that geraniums aren’t actually geraniums! I’ve been growing them in a porch pot for years and didn’t realize there’s also a perennial called a geranium. What’s the ...

Some varieties smell like roses, pine, chocolate, apples, or strawberries! One of my greatest spring joys every year is bringing some of my indoor potted plants outside to our deck to soak in the warm ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, the geranium was a novel and beloved plant. Thomas Jefferson took some to the White House. But by the end of the century, people were sick of it. William Morris, ...

Geraniums. The word brings to mind images of baseball-size red or orange flowers that are boldly held above bright green scalloped leaves. They’re a lot like lollipops of the plant world — sweet but ...

If you could take a sunny disposition, contentment, and good old-fashioned reliability and create a flower, it would be the geranium. They’ve been gracing our homes since pioneer days and are an ...

You can still successfully overwinter your geraniums even if you don’t have a brightly lit, warm place to keep them. The ...