Emmy-award winning garden-writer, writer of publications including Rub Welsh's Southern The golden state Horticulture: A Month-by-Month Guide, TV entertainer, as well as professional musician, Rub Welsh was birthed in England, took up horticulture at the age of 3, and has had her hands in the soil ever because. Welsh's expert gardening job began in the mid-1970's teaching training courses in home horticulture at UCSD Expansion and also Miracosta College. She's written plenty of articles as well as columns as well as organized over 500 television sections and videos. Her current composing project is a publication on Southwest Gardening for DK Publishers (New York/London), as well as the American Horticultural Society.