At this year's Chelsea Flower Show, geums seemed to upstage all other flowers. By my reckoning, Geum 'Totally Tangerine' appeared in most, if not all, show gardens, becoming quite the it-girl for 2025 ...

When it comes to plant buying, I tend to be resistant to new introductions. I generally stick with varieties that have a track record in cultivation and, preferably, that I’ve actually seen growing in ...

FLOWERS that appear relatively early in summer have a particular value as they fill the gap between late spring and high summer, and one of the best is geum. The colours of the cultivated kinds are ...

Every now and again a plant gets into the groundwater of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and pops up over and over again. “We launched Geum ’Totally Tangerine’ five years ago,” says Rosy Hardy of Hardy’s ...

Training as a gardener back in Britain, avens (or geums as they are properly known) were familiar to me only as a crafty weed to be dug up and thrown into the compost bin. Resistant to herbicides and ...

Some gardeners tend to shy away from hot colours. But in late spring warm orange sprinkled through sultry tulips has real eye appeal. I had a timely reminder when I visited Derry Watkins's garden at ...

This long-flowerer is a must-have for Chelsea gardens Plant fashions evolve slowly. It’s taken the geum nearly a decade to move up to its current position as a must-have for Chelsea gardens; visitors ...