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Message From Pat
Dear Reader: This site contains more than one thousand answers to garden questions on a wide range of subjects common to Mediterranean climates. Among them, we hope you find the answer to your question. Please take this opportunity to share your experiences,...
Pat Talks About Her Garden
Comment from Nina: “…I would also like to add that my daughter, husband, and I visited your garden about 20 years ago when she was working at Weidner’s. I received your book “Pat Welsh’s Southern California Gardening A Month-to-Month...
Romancing the Garden: A philosophy of gardening Pt 4
A garden may reflect a certain time or place, perhaps a country you love. Pots, statuary, choose tasteful statuary and garden ornaments to add art and whimsy Bird houses Murals, mosaics Statues and design elements can hearken back to ancient times, other...
Good Books for Food Gardening
Question from Kevin: I live in Simi Valley, Southern California. I have citrus and I love to grow all kinds of eatable foods. I have been picking away at my entire backyard for some 5 years now, trying to create a good food system. I need help from...
Romancing the Garden: A philosophy of gardening Pt 3
The next step is: How do you carry it out? Mine in a nutshell is: “Create a romantic garden and then live in it.” A Paradise Garden The Garden of Eden Dictionary definition of romance: “Imagination, love, idealization, wafting one to another time...
Sulfate of Potash
Q: In the rose-pro method of caring for roses in your book, it calls for sulfate of potash (0-0-22) which I can’t find in ANY nursery or hardware store around here. I did find Sul-Po-Mag which has the same NPK numbers, but also contains sulphur...
Southern California Gardening: Month by Month Guide, 2000
This much-loved book, often called ‘the gardener’s bible” is now completely revised and updated with an improved format, new cover, all-new photographs by Steve Gunther and much added material. Covers all the basic plants and plant groups grown...
Listen to Pat on Easy Organic Gardener Radio Show
Pat appeared at the guest on the Easy Organic Gardener Radio Show, Sunday, December 9, 2012. Listen to the archived podcast of the interview at arbico-organics.com.
Romancing the Garden: A philosophy of gardening Pt 2
To clarify the ideas in this book, I have illustrated it with photos from my own garden and those of friends and family. I am very keen on the idea that a garden needs to be in harmony with the architecture of the house it surrounds. My own house is 50...
Romancing the Garden: A philosophy of gardening Pt 1
One of the most basic instincts of many animals, including humans, is to mark and defend a territory. The parrot fish patrols his section of a coral reef, the tiger marks the edges of his range, the moose marks his chosen rutting field. Ants protect their...
Southwest Smart Garden Regional Guide
Over 2,500 spectacular identification photos, many taken by Pat Welsh, illustrate 250 plant category lists helping you choose plants for particular purposes, such as color, solid shade, near swimming pools, in a firescape, a boggy spot, for drought, heat,...
The Magic Mural
Written and illustrated by Pat Welsh with photos by Betsy Schulz, published in 2005 by the Friends of the Del Mar Library, ($14.95) Tells the story of the Del Mar Library Multi-Media Mural, a 92-foot-long creation covering a formerly bare 4-foot-tall...
Southern California Organic Gardening, Month by Month
“Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening, Month by Month”, Chronicle Books; 2010, takes local gardeners by the hand and helps them grow a beautiful pest-and-disease-free garden while living in harmony with nature, caring for the environment,...
