One of my favorite summer color annuals is the old-fashioned red geranium. This is one of the plants that could be considered an old timey flower whose time has passed, but I don’t think so. They are ...

I can hardly believe it is Memorial Day week already. It means many different things to me. This weekend is our annual Herb Festival Weekend and this year is No. 39! It also means a time for my ...

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, ...

`I`m like a missionary,” says Chuck Heidgen with the earnestness of someone with a message to deliver. His quest is to persuade people that there is more to geraniums than those plants blooming in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perennial cranesbill geranium plants are easy to grow and highly adaptable. Enjoy the long-blooming flowers in many garden conditions.

The first week of July is when annual flowers should be exploding with celebratory fireworks of color. If your petunias are pouting and geraniums, marigolds and other bedding plants not yet in flower, ...