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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you're looking for a hardy, low-maintenance flower that grows low and looks beautiful, then geraniums ...

If you want to keep deer and rabbits out of your garden, try planting this drought-tolerant and low maintenance plant. Its ...

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 ...

Six hardy geraniums have received high ratings in the Chicago Botanic Garden’s six-year evaluation of the genus. The botanic garden in Glencoe tested 111 species and cultivars of hardy geraniums, ...

Since I ranted earlier this spring about a geranium species you do not want in your garden, it seems only fair to feature some of the many geraniums that are thoroughly worth growing. These geraniums ...

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 name geranium conjures up pictures of hanging baskets and clay pots filled with large clusters of brilliant red, white or pink blossoms. Actually, these plants are not true geraniums at all and ...

Ian and Teresa Moss have a small nursery specialising in hardy and unusual perennials. It’s the kind of nursery where you’ll always find some little treasure you’ve never seen before, lovingly grown ...

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 ...

When someone says geranium, what do you see? It’s probably big globes of lipstick-red flowers, green leaves with scalloped edges on a plant rising 1 foot from a clay pot. That’s a geranium. But so is ...