Description: Mounding evergreen perennials with red, yellow, apricot or orange flowers carried on graceful stems, Geum species and cultivars are members of the rose family. Plants have fuzzy, ...

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 ...