Just like peanut butter and chocolate, or cheese and crackers, there’s something about growing geraniums in containers that feels like the perfect partnership. That’s not to say that geranium care is ...

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 ...

Geraniums are hardy, low-maintenance, and can thrive both indoors and outdoors with proper care. There are various types of geraniums; zonal, Martha Washington, and scented geraniums, each with unique ...

Geraniums and pelargoniums are easy-to-grow perennials familiar to most gardeners but often confused with one another. While both are in the geranium family, the most common plants sold as geraniums ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Zonal geraniums are a fan favorite flower and many of us already have them planted in our gardens or our pots. But if you don't have any... you might want to pick some up. As far back as the 1920s, ...

Fancy-leaf and variegated are another sub-group of Pelargoniums. – Original Credit: Ken Spencer These ivy geraniums, second most popular type, still looking good in January! Geraniums have staying ...