Includes thorough information for gardeners of all skill levels on propagating and cultivating popular varieties of geraniums. The book also shows you how to use scented geraniums to flavor baked goods and make lovely topiaries, dried arrangements, and potpourri. With scents of rose, lemon, ginger, and chocolate mint, the pelargoniums are easy to grow and will enrich your life with fragrance. Scented geraniums recall the Victorian era of gracious living. Lining a walkway, they enchant passers by with their heady aroma. Inside, growing on a windowsill, they infuse a home with their scents. Snowy nutmeg, Shottesham pet, and gray lady Plymouth are three enchanting scented geraniums among an ever increasing number of available cultivars. This handbook is a comprehensive guide to growing a wide variety of these tender plants, known more precisely as pelargoniums. Necessary cultural advice is presented, along with information on propagating plants to enhance home interiors or to contribute splendid fragrance to summer gardens and frost-free climates year round. Although horticultural basics are clearly explained for beginning gardeners, plenty of in-depth material is aimed at accomplished gardeners. Includes landscaping and pruning tips, recipes, and a listing of highly recommended varieties and sources where they may be purchased. Alice Joyce This slim volume presents a handbook of basics on scented geraniums; from growing the plants indoors and outside to recipes and ideas for using them in the kitchen and home. This excellent, basic reference includes color photos and all the details necessary to both grow and appreciate the geraniums. -- Midwest Book Review Faye Brawner owns and operates Deerwood Geraniums, a mail-order geranium nursery in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Used Book in Good Condition