[3] After her parents divorced, they both moved separately to the United States, leaving the children in England until they became eligible to emigrate.
She was inspired to become a writer by family friendships with James Michener, Pearl Buck, William L. White, and Oscar Hammerstein II.
On June 8, 1951, she married Maximilian Welsh, a Los Angeles trial lawyer for the Santa Fe Railroad.
[4] In 1956, the couple built a home in Del Mar, California that was designed by John Lloyd Wright,[5] They had two children, Francesca Filanc and Wendy Woolf.
In 1981 Welsh was hired as the host of an evening news segment called "Newscenter 39’s Resident Gardener" on KNSD in San Diego.
During her time at KNSD, she planned, wrote, and performed over 500 practical gardening segments plus one grand promo weekly and two teases.
An early emphasis on IPM (Integrated Pest Management) was later replaced by a firm conviction that chemical pesticides have no place in the home garden.
Her professional art projects include the design and building of a 92-foot-long, multi-media mural completed in 2002 in collaboration with graphic artist Betsy Schulz and 80 volunteers.
This mural is four feet tall and includes over thirty pieces of original terra cotta sculpture plus brick, Mexican river rock, and local memorabilia.