Ever wonder why the once-popular windowsill geranium suddenly vanished? These tidy little succulent flowers that our grandmothers loved were the most popular houseplant of the 1930s and ’40s. Then, in ...

Take your basic boring, over-used, sparse-blooming but hard-to-kill red geranium that so many people will be buying in the next few weeks. Then take a handsome, glossy-leafed, trailing ivy geranium ...

Ever wonder why the once-popular windowsill geranium suddenly vanished? These tidy little succulent flowers that our grandmothers loved were the most popular houseplant of the 1930s and '40s. Then, in ...

There’s more to geraniums than the old-fashioned, red-flowering plants our great-grandmothers used to brighten a windowsill or fill a planter on the front steps. Even the most avid admirers of ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, the geranium was a novel and beloved plant. Thomas Jefferson took some to the White House. But by the end of the century, people were sick of it. William Morris, ...

Geraniums are a classic summer annual in our area, but come in all shapes and sizes. Actually, the summer annuals we call geraniums are known as pelargonium. Hardy, perennial geraniums are native ...

Matisse liked to pump up the color of his subjects, but when it came to geraniums, the flowers beat him to it. They were already as red as red could get without turning orange. The same color might ...

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 ...