Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geraniums are wonderfully low maintenance and come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes - Getty Hard-working heroes of the spring ...

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 ...

There is always confusion about hardy geraniums. Many people still know the red geraniums of window sills and pots, now correctly pelargoniums, as geraniums, while this name now, correctly, is only ...

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 ...

Blue-blooming ornamentals like geraniums, verbena, scaevola, and petunias can be show-stopping, but they have specific needs to keep flowers coming. Sunlight, soil quality, watering habits, and pest ...

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, ...

A geranium plant is a garden classic—and for good reason! Learn fascinating facts about these favorite flowers. A true geranium plant, which is called a cranesbill geranium, forms stunning mounds of ...

When most casual gardeners hear the term geranium, they often think of the colorful window-box plants. In fact, the true geraniums are a genus of low-growing, colorful and spreading perennials that ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Is there anything more joyous than geraniums? Bright, resilient and utterly undemanding, these pleasers of the ...