ROSALIE J. FROM GLEN ELLEN ASKS: Is there a difference between a geranium and a pelargonium? I thought they were the same plant. Here’s where it gets confusing, so read carefully. True hardy geraniums ...

The flowering plants we commonly call geraniums, including the popular scented geraniums, are members of the Pelargonium genus and botanically not true geraniums, which are hardy flowering perennials.

Geraniums and pelargoniums are often conflated, and it's true they're in the same plant family. But – as in most families! – while they have similarities, they differ in many ways too. Formal plant ...

Geraniums and pelargoniums are easy-to-grow perennials familiar to most gardeners but often confused with one another. While both are in the geranium family, the most common plants sold as geraniums ...

Routinely known as Geraniums, but actually classified as Pelargoniums, these gloriously coloured perennials are more usually grown as pot plants rather than directly in the ground. Conjuring up the ...

When is a geranium not a geranium? When it’s a pelargonium! And that’s much more often than you think. The stalwarts of the summer patio, those brilliantly colored, lollipop shaped blooms spilling ...

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Geraniums have a way of evoking memories. Whether it’s the first bright red zonals that grandma planted in spring or those pots of dotted color on windowsills that welcome visitors to charming ...

‘Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.’ Garden writer Beverley Nichols’s typically tongue-in-cheek, overblown remark hides a truth: how can anyone not be ...

At first mention of the word geranium, I imagine most of us picture a red-flowered annual. Technically speaking though, what we commonly refer to as a geranium is a member of the genus Pelargonium.