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Pat Welsh (author)
Pat Welsh is a television performer, columnist, garden editor, public speaker, and author of “Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening, Month by Month” and other books. As the host of a television segment on the evening newscast of San Diego’s NBC affiliate, Welsh pioneered the subject of gardening on the 6:00 p.m. newscast, the first show of its kind nationwide.
During her long career as a magazine editor, columnist, TV performer, and public speaker Welsh vigorously opposed the once-popular concept that gardening information and books for California must be written and published in England or New York. Instead, Welsh championed regional books and Mediterranean garden styles. She urged gardeners to turn away from English and east coast styles and thirsty lawns and instead to grow drought-resistant plants and use techniques and timing of garden tasks appropriate to the Mediterranean climate of Southern California, which is characterized by plentiful sunshine, mild temperatures, and dry summers with most rainfall occurring in fall, winter, and spring. Her approach combines the artistic elements of gardening, such as design and color, with practical skills for dealing with climate zones, soil types, plant materials, irrigation methods, and environmentally responsible methods of disease and pest control. An early emphasis on IPM (Integrated Pest Management) was later replaced by a firm conviction that chemical pest controls have no place in the home garden. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Welsh has urged today’s gardeners to rely solely on poison-free organic methods and to feed plants with natural, organic fertilizers in place of synthetic ones.
==Early years: 1929–1935==
Patricia Ruth Fisher-Smith was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, in 1929, the year of the financial crash to a wealthy and influential family of mill owners and garden enthusiasts, thus she naturally fell into an early interest in gardens. The families of both her parents had risen in prominence during the Industrial Revolution and were now rapidly in decline. Her father, Emerson Lyman Fisher-Smith〔(Emerson Lyman Fisher-Smith )〕 and mother, Ruth Beatrice Ambler, were socialites who lost their money and residence in the financial crash. They were forced to return home and live in the large estates of their parents; they went first to the Gleddings〔(Gleddings )〕 and then to Hoyle Court,〔(Hoyle Court )〕 each with extensive gardens. Emerson borrowed money from his mother, Lady Hattie Fisher-Smith, founder of many charities in Yorkshire〔(Halifax Women's Welfare Clinic )〕 and the American wife of Sir George Henry Fisher-Smith,〔(Sir George Henry Fisher-Smith )〕 to buy part ownership of the Gainsborough Studios a film company outside London. Emerson worked as Art Director on Men of Steel (1932),〔(Men of Steel )〕 in which his wife, Ruth, had a small role. Tiger Bay with Ana May Wong〔Anna May Wong〕 in the starring role, did well at the box office, but minor comedies starring his wife Ruth Fisher-Smith, who was beautiful but could not act, opposite Reginald Gardener were not a success. These fiascos capped by the over-budget production of Chu Chin Chow (1934), a musical and somewhat racy retelling of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, also starring Ana May Wong, led to Emerson’s financial ruin. As a result, Ruth and Emerson divorced and Emerson emigrated from England to America, where he joined the Hollywood crowd, played major roles at the Pasadena Playhouse, and small roles in several movies including Mrs. Miniver. Emerson later married Margot Gould, an American from Connecticut who was twenty-five years his junior, and lived comfortably to the age of ninety on the proceeds of the Fisher-Smith estate in a house he and Margot built overlooking the Mediterranean Sea on the island of Malta. Throughout his life, he was a talented painter in both oils and watercolor and a world traveler.
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