I put a lemon-scented geranium on my windowsill just for the look: since then, not a single tiger mosquito has come inside after the summer rains
That lemon-scented geranium on your windowsill might smell wonderful, but it’s almost certainly not the reason mosquitoes stayed away this summer. Decades of research reveal a surprising truth about ‘mosquito plants’ that garden centers have been marketing since the 1980s—and what actually keeps tiger mosquitoes out of your home.