It’s a struggle to think of a plant that’s as useful and hardworking as a hardy geranium. A huge proportion of gardeners must surely grow them, yet they never seem overused – just ever-popular. This is testament to what superb garden plants they are, something that is in part down to the fact that they’re so straightforward to grow.
“They don’t need any attention at all,” says Sue Clarke, who is a Plant Heritage National Collection holder of and. Sue’s first geraniums came from her mother – the ease with which hardy geraniums can be dug up and divided means this is often the way, and many plants are imbued with memories of friends and family. “My mother was a great plantswoman. She didn’t really know many names, but she loved plants and gave me lots of geraniums. When
