Robin Parer, a member of the The Late Show Gardens Executive Committee, is the owner of Geraniaceae, a nursery dedicated to the Geranium Family. She has lectured on the Geranium Family all over the United States, Australia, South Africa and the U.K. She has written about the Geranium Family and has been the subject of numerous articles, radio and television programs. She is also a co-organizer of The Bay Area Horticultural Society (The Hortisexuals) and has had the opportunity, over a 20 year period, of organizing tours for the group to visit many of the best gardens on the West Coast. She is passionate about great garden design, the grave threats posed by continuing climate change, and the need to alert everyone to the changes we will have to make to our gardens.

Geoffrey Gratz was awakened to his love of the earth and gardening in third grade, when a small plot of land was set aside specifically for his class. Later he joined the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG), one of the nation's largest urban-gardening programs and responsible for some 100 neighborhood gardens all over San Francisco. Geoffrey’s garden at his previous home in Bernal Heights was twice featured in Garden Conservancy tours. He now happily tends to his container gardens on his rooftop patio.

Saxon Holt is a professional garden photographer whose images are well recognized in hundreds of magazine and book credits. He has been the photographer for more than a dozen garden books and his last two, Hardy Succulents, (Storey 2008) and Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Climates (EBMUD, 2004), were awarded prestigious prizes as outstanding garden books by both the American Horticultural Society and the Garden Writers of America. Saxon collaborated with John Greenlee on his next book, The American Meadow Garden, due this fall from Timber Press.

Saxon lives and gardens in Novato and writes a regular column about garden photography on the Gardening Gone Wild blog. He serves on the board of the Stock Artist Alliance and on the Advisory Council of the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco.

www.saxonholt.com

Barbara Stevens is one of three people who founded the San Francisco Landscape Garden Show which prospered and gained prominence from 1984 – 1996.  She is a co-author (with Nancy Conner) of “Where on Earth: A Guide to Specialty Nurseries and Other Resources for California Gardeners”.  Barbara is currently co-writing another book.

Mary Wildavsky  Imported to Oakland from England in 1973, Mary was a late blooming gardener. A retired landscape contractor and garden designer, she is still buying plants for her Oakland garden.  Mary is a Hortisexual, dog-lover and Board member of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.