Finding the right plants to fill a shady garden bed can be difficult. Shaded areas require a specific type of plant that won't be diminished due to lack of sunlight. Plus, it should be a lovely ...

Butterflies flying around various flowers in a garden in the summer - Borchee/Getty Images Butterflies love visiting gardens filled with native plants that help them do their job as pollinators and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cranesbill Mining Bee (Andrena distans) on Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) at Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden. A native solitary bee species, the Cranesbill Mining Bee plays an important role ...