If you have a successful geranium, chances are you want to replicate that success. Once you have an established plant, you can benefit from the use of cuttings to propagate additional plants, especially in comparison to trying to overwinter a geranium, plus you get more of these stunning plants for very little cost.  Geraniums, the longer they are kept alive, lose the floriferous quality for which they’re so popular. To that end, using cuttings to…

If you have a beautiful geranium in the spring, there’s no reason why you can’t store them for the winter and keep them going without having to start over the following season. Overwintering your geraniums doesn’t take a lot of space nor does it require you to invest a lot of time or money. It is important to have realistic expectations going in though. The longer you keep your geranium alive, the woody or bare…

If you have geraniums either in your garden or in your home, two of the most important actions you can take to improve the gross and floriferous qualities include pruning and deadheading, the two of which are very different things. Deadheading simply is a process to remove flowers that have finished to help promote continuous flowering. Pruning can be used to cut back the actual plant including the foliage stems to help encourage the plant…

If you have beautiful geraniums in your garden or inside the home in pots, one of the few things you have to do to maintain its floriferous quality and promote continuous flowering is to deadhead them. To deadhead pelargonium geraniums, hold the flower stalk that has finished flowering near the base and pull downwards. In most cases, the old bloom should snap out cleanly. Although this is the process most people use it is probably…

If you want to fill any empty areas in your garden with delightful shrubs that bring with them aromatic flowers, leaves, and in some cases fruit, you, of course, have to be considerate of the space you have available. Some people designed their gardens specifically to contain various levels for geometrically aesthetic purposes. Others have landscape designs that require everything to remain at a certain height. To that end, if you need something low-growing, consider…