About the Designer
Susan French started making miniature flower designs in 2001 for a local flower show at the urging of a friend. She was soon hooked on this most unusual pursuit, and has entered and won awards at many shows since then. Over the years, she expanded her design skills to encompass larger scale compositions, up to six feet or more in size. Susan is an accredited flower show Judge with the National Garden Club Federation, of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She also holds a Certificate of Merit in Floral Design from Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. She has also completed two of three required segments in the EMC program, European Master Certification.

Susan’s preference in design is a focus on artistic expression with flowers. In particular, she enjoys working with natural materials (wood in all its forms, seed pods, dried flowers, and found objects).

Susan has been a gardener since her grade school days, and credits two of her favorite aunts, Mary French Hopfer and Annabelle French Macintosh, with inspiring her to garden (with roses and perennials in particular) and to create beautiful arrangements from garden flowers.

She studied ornamental horticulture and flower arranging while a student at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA, a beautiful campus environment in which to learn these subjects. She later took many classes at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. An avid reader, Susan’s gardening and floral design book collection is vast and continues to expand. Her favorite periodicals include Fusion Flowers magazine, published in Scotland, and Florists’ Review, a US-based publication.