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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're looking for a hardy, low-maintenance flower that grows low and looks beautiful, then geraniums are it! Perennial ...

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 ...

Wild geranium is a hardy perennial found growing naturally in the woodlands of North America. If you have a shady yard or dark borders beneath a large tree, this is the plant to grow. Wild geraniums, ...

When it comes to flowering plants at the OPC senior center display garden in Rochester, we depend mostly on annuals to keep the color coming throughout the season. However, shrubs that flower and/or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hardy geraniums are a great ground cover plant for sunny or partially shaded areas, but they often are confused with the beautiful annual geraniums found at the garden center in spring. Technically, ...

When I first started gardening more than 40 years ago, it made no sense to me why anyone would plant a flower that lived for just one summer when there were so-called “perennials” that came back year ...