Whether you’re a hard-core gardener or simply have a curiosity about plants, two new titles from London-based Reaktion Books are sure to command your attention. “Oak” by Peter Young and “Geranium” by ...

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 are not just your grandmother's lavishly colored blooms on lollipop-stick stems. Some kinds have fancy leaves. And then there are the scented ones. With fragrances running the gamut from the ...