Pat Welsh - Writer, 92
Episode description
Pat Welsh is an Emmy-award winning garden writer and author of books including Pat Welsh’s Southern California Gardening: A Month by Month Guide--which is the bible for all Southern California gardeners.
She was the first Garden Editor of San Diego Home/Garden Magazine in 1979 and hosted a TV news garden segment on Channel 39 on the San Diego evening news. She also hosted multiple garden videos and infomercials for Better Home and Gardens and the H/GTV network.
Pat has received countless awards for her work, notably the San Diego Emmy, Three Quill and Trowel Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Quail Botanical Gardens, and Horticulturist of the Year from San Diego Horticultural Society.
Pat has two daughters, 5 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren and I am one of the lucky grandchildren who get to call her “Nana”. She still writes and paints from her home in Del Mar, California. Pat Welsh is 92 years old. Welcome to “Work While You Have the Light”, Nana.