Proposed by: Millbrook Garden Club, Zone III

More than generous to others, ever encouraging to the least talented to think outside the box when there is little talent except in her eyes, most loyal of friends to club members old and new, Susan Detjens holds the respect of all around her, serving as a former Club President, Zone III representative and vice chairman on both Judging and Floral Design Committees, and co- Chairman of the 2015 Annual Meeting Flower Show. While assuming leadership roles, she has carried out an incredibly hectic and productive schedule of teaching and devising new curricula for 101, 201 and 301 Floral Design workshops across the country.  Her teaching has won her praise and admiration only to vie with her ability to enter and win blue in major flower shows from Honolulu to Boston. A gifted painter by training and a floral designer by choice, she employs an aesthetic eye,  filled with surprisingly endless new interpretations of asymmetrical balance, color, space and line, often featured in her new design blog flowerflinging.com.   Capturing the hearts and attention of many non-floral designers,   the name offers a window into her keen sense of humor. One of the most talented if not original designers in floral design in the country Susan has won two Puckett Creativity Awards and two Fenwick’s, a Munger, Zone III Flower Arranging Education Award (2010), Zone III Barbara Spaulding Cramer Flower Arrangement Award, and Millbrook Garden Club Medal of Merit. She has been an inspirational presence at the Philadelphia Flower Show, winning in 2013 not only a Blue in the Galleria Class, but also Best of the Day and Best of the Week, later highlighted on the cover of By Design.  She has won in Houston twice with a top Florist Special Award and in 2011 she was one of twelve USA representatives to win a silver ribbon in the International WAFA Show in Boston. Endlessly creative she surprises her colleagues with her boundless energy to share, enviable with her creativity genius, and awe inspiring to her audiences-novices and professional, with her blue ribbon ingenuity, aesthetic and structure, and dedication to the Garden Club of America.