Speaker: Carol King Platt

Program:

It’s the time of year when the garden has been put to bed and we are all indoors more and looking to decorate our homes for the holidays.  Learn how to create easy and beautiful Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations using things from your garden, the side of the road and Stop and Shop. Carol will create 5 decorations which will be raffled off at the end of the program.

Speaker Bio:

Carol King Platt is a former contributing editor at House & Garden and for 23 years wrote a weekly garden/lifestyle column for The New London Day. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Traditional Home and Better Homes and Gardens. She takes as her topics the classic themes of great literature-that is to say, Life, Death, Sex and Rhododendrons. Carol lectures regularly about garden design and flower arranging. She has designed gardens in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Carol Is the past chair of the Landscape Design Council of Connecticut, and is a member of The Connecticut Unit of the Herb Society of America and the Wallingford Garden Club.  She lives and gardens with her husband, Rose and Rhododendron guy, Ted Platt at Rose Cottage in Wallingford, Connecticut.