Everyday heroes

In the first of a two-part series, Mike Palmer celebrates his favourite fuss-free hardy geraniums for sunny borders

In spring, a beautiful eastern redbud tree (Cercis canadensis), its branches clothed from trunk to tip with cerise-purple flowers, steals the show at Sue Martin’s cottage garden in Cranbrook, Kent. It

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

The country’s Cape Floral Kingdom has incredible bloom diversity with around 9,000 species – and some make spectacular plants for our British gardens

REAL readers' gardens!

REAL readers' gardens! Pruning roses A plant-packed suburban ...