Scented geranium

Colorful, beautiful, sweet-smelling, and flavorful, scented geraniums are a delight for the senses. These multi-purpose plants don’t enjoy the same popularity as their garden cousins, but they’re more than worthy of a spot in the yard. Learn how to grow Pelargonium now on Gardener's Path. #scentedgeranium #gardenerspath

Scented geraniums are versatile plants that have a multitude of colorful blooms and lovely scents. Here's a guide for how to plant, grow and care for scented geraniums at home.

Scented geraniums are fragrant, colorful perennial herbs with a wide range of scents. Rose, peppermint, lemon, nutmeg, apple, and chocolate are all scents associated with these flowering herbs. Scented geraniums are pelargoniums, generally hybrids produced for their vibrant colors, beauty, and smell, rather than true garden geraniums as their common name implies. Many fragrant geraniums' leaves, blooms, and essential oils can be used as garnishes, in salads, and to flavor ice creams and…

Rose-scented geranium is one of the more useful herbs in the garden. Use it to make a relaxing herbal tea, scent and nourish furniture, and keep insects away.

Award-winning Pelargonium 'Attar of Roses' (Scented Geranium) is a bushy evergreen sub-shrub boasting rose-scented, pinnately lobed leaves. The leaves are covered with fine short hairs making them soft to the touch. They release their rose fragrance when brushed or crushed. Blooming from spring to summer, pale lavender-pink flowers up to 1 in. across (2.5 cm) are produced in clusters above the fragrant foliage. Their large upper petals are adorned with deep burgundy blotches and veins. Place…

Rose-scented leaves and clusters of pale pink flowers adorn this trailing geranium.

Propagating scented geraniums! The scented geranium is one of my favorites to take cuttings from and grow.

Try some of the hundreds of types of scented geraniums as container plants, house plants, and in hot climates, as perennials.

Lemon geranium offers beautifully lemon-scented foliage for a modicum of care. Its scent repels mosquitoes, too.

Scented geraniums (Pelargoniums) are tender perennials available in delightful scents like spice, mint, various fruits, and rose. If you love scented geraniums, you can easily multiply your plants by rooting Pelargonium cuttings. Learn how in this article.

Homestead selected their favorite scented geranium cultivars for the April issue of Sunset Magazine — Homestead Design Collective

Looking for a versatile and lovely smelling flower to plant this season? The scented geranium is a fantastic option for gardens of all types and sizes! In this article, gardening expert and cut flower farmer Taylor Sievers shares her favorite scented geraniums to add to your indoor or outdoor garden this season.

Pruning and deadheading scented geraniums (pelargoniums) make for a good maintenance regimen. However, both have benefits that extend beyond aesthetical considerations. Scented geranium plants are easy to grow and require little ongoing care. Still, you may want to consider regularly deadheading and pruning pelargoniums to improve vigor and bloom production.

Learn more about Lemon Scented Geraniums here, including watering tips, common issues & propagation ideas.

Want to know how to use fresh geranium leaves for health at home and what to make with geranium leaves at home? Keep on reading.

Scented geranium - foliage *not our photo www.shady-grove-gardens.com

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Scented geraniums or pelargoniums usually start blooming in warm weather, in spring or mid-summer and continue to bloom until autumn. If moved indoors for the winter, they can bloom all year long. It varies by species how long scented geranium flowers last, but generally, you can enjoy blooms for a couple of weeks at a time. Because scented geraniums can bloom all summer long, I discuss a few tips and tricks on how to make the best of the blooming season.

As cold weather arrives, my garden focus switches to houseplants. I am particularly fond of growing scented geraniums inside the home. They are easy to grow and smell great, releasing aromatic oils…

Attar Of Rose Geraniums: Learn About Scented Attar Of Roses - Scented attar of roses, extracted from the blooms of roses, was highly desired and very expensive during the Victorian era. Thus, geranium attar of rose became an inexpensive substitute. Learn more about this plant in the following article.