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.

Perennial geraniums are a hardy, low-growing plant, often grown as a ground cover or in containers. These easy-to-grow plants are also known as hardy geraniums or cranesbill geraniums because the ...

The plants that we commonly call geraniums and grow as annuals on the Prairies originated in South Africa. Dutch traders brought the annual geranium plant to Europe… ...

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.

The fleshy-leafed plants, with their long flower stalks and cluster of blossoms, really are not geraniums, but pelargoniums. And while they’re related to perennial geraniums, they aren’t true ...

There is a native perennial with the botanical name Geranium, often called cranesbill. If I could find the person who started calling Pelargoniums Geraniums, I would spend a long time thinking up ...

Popular annuals include geranium, marigold, impatiens, begonia, petunia and many others. It is interesting to note that many of these plants grown as annuals in Ohio are grown as perennials in ...

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I plan to plant more perennial flowers this spring so I don’t have to replant every year. Could you share with us some of your favorite perennial flowers? How do they bloom in comparison to annuals?