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Pat Welsh’s Garden
Question from Cat: I was wondering if you ever open your garden up for viewing. I would love to see it. I live in Trabuco Canyon, California and am an avid So Calif gardener. I travel to Great Dixter every year to take their gardenning symposiums...
Thomas Welsh
Question from Janice: We recently learned that our beautiful home at 2711 Claremont Blvd., Berkeley, CA, was designed by your great grandfather, Thomas Welsh. We had an opportunity to see your book about him at a library. Are any copies available for...
My Article
From Randy: Thanks for all your help. Thought maybe you’d like to read something I wrote. Try this link. Thanks. Enjoy. http://www.independent.com/news/2011/sep/20/my-life/ From Pat: Very cute and thanks for sending but I hope next year brings...
Conversation Related to Fossilized Seabird (pelican) Guano
Message from Daniel: The main problem I am having is not the performance of the product but it’s the education of what it is . It seems like the West coast people have not been exposed to a significant supply of the fossilized guano so they do not...
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...
How to Protect Rusty Objects in Mosaic Wall
Q. I just ran across your wonderful wall images online. I am planning on making a mosaic backsplash in my kitchen using pieces of broken pottery and rusty objects I have found in my backyard. I am wondering if you can give me advice on any special cleaning/sealing...
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,...
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,...
Book in Spanish
Question from Coralie: I love your month-by-month gardening book. Is it printed in Spanish? I would love to give a copy in Spanish to my gardener. Answer from Pat: I wish my book was available in Spanish but alas it is not! (Suggest a Spanish edition...
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...
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...
Journal Recommendations
Question from Jim: I’m trying to locate a gardening journal for my wife. She uses your book but would like to take notes and record information specific to our monthly garden needs. I’m hoping you can give me some ideas. Also, you may...
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...
