Question from Ronald: I will like to purchase some of your artwork for my daughter that is graduating from the college soon,and will like to inform you that i will be making payment with cheque.kindly get back to me with your website address if this is okay by you. Answer from Pat: Thank you for […]

Posted by GIRL’S GONE CHILD The following is a guest-post by Nana who came to my house two weeks ago to help me with my vegetable garden and also to shoot some how-to gardening videos with Hal and our friend, Auggie.   Read more…

Hello Pat: I am a girl from everywhere east coast and west coast, who married a wonderful military man who has finally settled with her kids in San Diego, Eastlake to be specific. Ahhh. I am a newish organic veggie gardener, having gardened in the past in Virginia in 1990, Oregon from 1997-2000 and now […]

One of my friends, met on the train during my commute to work, suggested we check out a meeting of the San Diego Horticultural Society, which is held once a month at the Del Mar fairgrounds.  In my mind I pictured 20-30 local farmers and growers, sitting around talking about soil, and bugs and water issues, […]

You can see photos of my garden several places. There is a gallery of photos in patwelsh.com under the heading “Pat’s Pergola Paradise”. Also, many of the photos in my new organic book, are of my garden, such as the wisteria photo, the wildflower step-by-step pages, and all the veggie photos. Additionally, I used a […]

What a lovely letter. Thank you so much. I am thrilled to think I brought back to you in memory your Great Aunt Ethel and Grandmother Lila, who loved gardening here in our mild Mediterranean climate that really does extend, as you pointed out, from San Francisco on down the coast and inland to the […]

But gardens are moveable feasts and I have changed mine with the times, the water restrictions, and my own requirements as I grow older. I am hoping to live in my home and garden for another twenty years at least which would bring me to age 100. I have seen aging folks let plants die […]

Pat’s wisteria & clivia & fountain. (Photo by Aenne Carver)

All things bright and beautiful All creatures great and small All things wise and wonderful The Lord God made them all But what we never mention though gardener’s know it’s true Is when He made beneficials, he made the bad bugs too All things spray and swattable Disasters great and small. Water scarce; soil horrible, […]