22 September  2010  Carol King We open our season of meetings with our own member Carol King. Carol is a former contributing editor at House & Garden and is a freelance garden and lifestyle writer. Her work has appeared in Traditional Home and The New York Times, as well as many local publications. She writes a twice a week garden blog for The New London Day. Carol is a Master Landscape Design Consultant and is the past chair of the Landscape Design Council of Connecticut. She is a member of The Middletown Garden Club, The Connecticut Unit of the Herb Society of America and is a Master Gardener. Carol was voted one of People, Places and Plants™ top ten New England garden writers. Carol lives and gardens with her husband, Rosarian and Rhododendron guy, Ted Platt, in Wallingford, Connecticut. She can be contacted through her web site www.carolkinggardens.com. She will be speaking to us about The Mixed Border- The Greedy Gardener's Guide to Having It All. “Greedy Gardeners" (you know who you are) love to collect all sorts of plants. The problem is where to put them so they look like a composition of harmonious companions instead of a collection of unrelated strangers? The answer is The Mixed Border. Carol will show you how to combine your favorite plants into harmonious, beautiful borders that look good for 3 seasons. Handouts will be provided