Meet the Geranium Family!

Episode 29: Robin Parer loves Geraniums. An avid horticulturalist, Robin started a nursery in 1983 with 32 Geranium plants. Thirty five years later, Robin's nursery contains over 650 members of the Geraniaceae Family. Robin has traveled through leech infested Australian swamps, explored Hawaiian craters, and climbed 14,000 feet to reach Andean lama pastures- all for her love of Geraniums! In this episode, I speak with Robin Parer about the entire Geraniaceae Family: Hardy Geraniums, Pelargoniums, Erodiums,and Monsonias. Robin talks in depth about how to grow and propagate them, where they are found in nature, the mistaken identity of Pelargoniums, and why she has been entranced with this plant family for so long. Robin Parer is the owner and operator of the Geraniaceae Nursery in Kentfield, CA and the author of the book, The Plant Lovers' Guide to Hardy Geraniums . She is also one of the founders of the Bay Area Horticultural Society and has been featured in the New York Times, Sunset, and House and Garden Magazine.

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Meet the Geranium Family! is an episode from The Plant Report- Every Plant Has A Story by Jill Cloutier.

This episode is 50:45 long.

This episode was published on Aug 31, 2018.

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