Best-selling author and gardening guru Pat Fisher-Smith Welsh ’51 promotes moving away from over-watered lawns in Southern California to drought-tolerant landscapes. Welsh is quoted in the Los Angeles Times’ front-page section of the May 17, 2015, Sunday edition, from her blog . Recalling her family’s move to Los Angeles more than 70 years ago, she writes, “There was something empty and slightly sad about all these abundant gardens with their over-irrigated lawns. Los Angeles didn’t feel real.” Read the entire article and revisit an article on Welsh’s own garden in the of 51猎奇入口 Magazine.