This isn’t the first time I have written about geraniums. Perhaps because they symbolize New England. I love seeing them hanging from pots, fi…

Last weekend I was caring for my two geraniums on the windowsill, adding a little plant food to the soil and carefully examining the foliage. …

In The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Random House, 2001)  journalist Michael Pollan explores, through case studies, the c…