Why buy more plants when the ones you already have are perfectly capable of making new ones for you? There are tons of stunning flowers that are easy to propagate from cuttings, including geraniums ...

Geranium (Pelargonium) are one of my favorite plants to grow in containers during the summer month. They bring flowers unlike ...

With some plants, the granny is not your ideal model. Obviously the older an oak tree, the bigger and more handsome it will be and the same applies to many perennials: the best peonies, agapanthus or ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Somewhere along the line, almost all of us have come across and recognize geraniums — or what we think are geraniums. The fleshy-leafed plants, with their long flower stalks and ...

One spring, a caller to my radio show shocked the living tweedle out of me. She told me that her entire collection of pelargoniums died after following my advice on overwintering them. I had told her ...

You can still successfully overwinter your geraniums even if you don’t have a brightly lit, warm place to keep them. The ...

Gaillardia, sometimes known as blanket flower, can be annuals, biennials, or perennials (check the seed packet). They have hairy leaves and showy daisy-like blossoms, usually in various combinations ...

Even if you are not a gardener, you’ll know what a pelargonium (aka geranium) is. Love them or not, there’s no escaping them, from the Royal Parks, where 12,000 scarlet pelargoniums are planted ...

I have long appreciated the virtues of scented-leaved pelargoniums, but even I was startled when I visited the glasshouses of Cramden Nursery in Northampton on a hot day earlier this month. The mixed ...