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 are wonderfully low maintenance and come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes - Getty Hard-working heroes of the spring and summer garden, hardy geraniums are having a comeback. Many would ...

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 ...

True geraniums? Aren’t those smelly yet showy annuals we buy and pot every year “true” geraniums? Well, not really. We call them zonal geraniums, and they are pelargoniums. No big deal. It’s all just ...

The first week of July is when annual flowers should be exploding with celebratory fireworks of color. If your petunias are pouting and geraniums, marigolds and other bedding plants not yet in flower, ...