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The Passion for Pelargoniums
Quick and reliable to grow for summer colour, and well marketed, most gardeners will have at least one pelargonium in their garden or conservatory, without realising either the number or variety of species available, nor the plant's extraordinary history. The Passion for Pelargoniums reveals the fascinating and dramatic tales of those who have been involved in finding, classifying, collecting and breeding the plants. It explodes the myth that all modern versions of the plant are descended from the oldest known variety - the seventeenth-century drab-coloured P. triste, literally translated as the sad pelargonium, and reveals that 2,000 hybrids have been developed from less than a dozen plants...
Pelargoniums
Propagation, as well as solutions to possible problems. The book deals with cultivated plants, but it will also assist in identification of species found in their native habitats. The history of the genus is explained, from the introduction of the first species into the gardens of Europe in the seventeenth century and then into America, to their use in the production of the zonal and regal pelargonium cultivars, familiar to many enthusiasts. Written on the basis of.
