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 ...

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 ...

Hardy geraniums are loved for their vibrant purple petals and long flowering period, making them a long-standing favourite for gardeners across the UK. Both cold and frost hardy, cranesbills offer an ...

Since I ranted earlier this spring about a geranium species you do not want in your garden, it seems only fair to feature some of the many geraniums that are thoroughly worth growing. These geraniums ...

Hardy geraniums have been called “the little black dress” of the garden because they’re so practical, stylish and reliable in every situation. When you have bare earth and don’t know what to plant, ...

If I were to label a perennial as perfect -- or as close to perfect as is possible -- I'd pick hardy geraniums. Their needs are simple, they aren't heavy feeders, they don't require staking and they ...

Hardy geraniums get their common name ‘cranesbill’ from the distinctive shape the seed head forms after the petals have fallen. They differ immeasurably from tender annual geraniums, which confusingly ...

Hardy perennial geraniums or cranesbill (their common name is due to the resemblance of their seeds to a crane’s bill) are sometimes confused with tender pelargoniums (frequent hanging basket ...

Recently, I’ve dug a lot of geraniums of my garden because they had grown exuberantly in the wrong place. I will describe these interlopers later in this column. Plants that grow where they are not ...

It may look drastic, but giving them a hard cutback can reward you with fresh foliage ...

Our gardening columnist reveals his favourites, from magenta-coloured Geranium psilostemon to pale pink Geranium ‘Ballerina’ Tom Brown, a Telegraph columnist for four years, is head gardener at West ...