By Valerie Elliot For The Mail On SundayPublished: 17:01 EDT, 17 April 2021 | Updated: 19:55 EDT, 17 April 2021The geraniums are fighting back. A group of growers is launching a social media campaign to attract young gardeners to the delights of the flower once dismissed as 'the poor man's rose'. Geraniums and closely related plants, collectively called pelargoniums, were once ubiquitous, but their popularity made them unfashionable. The new drive on Instagram and other social media platforms is backed by the Royal Horticultural Society. But bosses might have their work cut out as society designer Nicky Haslam recently described red geraniums as 'vulgar'.

Source: The Nation April 18, 2021 00:00 UTC