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About Susan V. Fox, Consulting Rosarian
Susan Fox, author is a consulting rosarian that speaks, grows, photographs, and shows roses. Company founder of Gaga’s Garden®, and author of Four Seasons of Roses 2014 Monthly Guide to Rose Care, Susan was recently awarded the American Rose Society's (ARS) Presidential Citation "for Promoting the Rose and Rose Education Via Social Media." A rose judge at the Biltmore International Rose Trials in Ashville, NC, she currently represents Hometalk, the largest home and garden social network where millions of homeowners and professionals share projects and answer questions. At her heart is a commitment to generating educational, entertaining content that profiles specific products, personalities, places and events that engage the larger audience through targeted social media campaigns. This and other acknowledgments in the gardening community has firmly established Susan as one of the most highly regarded rosarians and gardeners in the industry with a special talent for promoting garden related products, people or events via social media and content marketing. The Website at www.gagasgarden.com features a sample of Gaga's Garden® content and story telling graphics that keep readers coming back for more! Susan is an ARS National Trophy winner holding numerous local rose society awards including having her garden featured in the Plano Texas Profile Magazine. The Dallas Rose Society chose her Texas garden to receive the coveted Elizabeth Ferguson Large Garden Award, as well as being on the Plano Garden Club’s tour of “Our Favorite Gardens.” Now residing in Illinois, she is on the board of the Illinois-Indiana District Rose Society and publisher of the ARS Il-Liana District Newsletter. She is past board member of the Northeastern Illinois and Dallas Rose Societies where she served as treasurer and secretary. Currently she is a member of the Daughters of The American Revolution (DAR), Jane Douglas Chapter, Dallas, Texas, and is past secretary of the Ann Crooker St. Clair DAR, Effingham, IL. A published writer, marketing executive and national corporate spokesperson, as a content marketing strategist she is an engaging speaker dedicated to capturing the moment in a country rose garden to share with the world. Her passion is the perpetuation, planting and care of everything that grows with a penchant for roses.

• Judge at the Biltmore International Rose Trials, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC
2014 American Rose Society Presidential Citation for Promoting Roses and Rose Education through Social Media as well as VIA www.gagasgarden.com ARS President Jolene Adams

1998 Dallas Rose Society Spring and Fall Show:
• Elizabeth Ferguson Large Garden Award
1996 Dallas Rose Society Spring and Fall Show:
• American Rose Society Best Modern Shrub Award
• American Rose Society Best Miniature Spray Award
1994 Dallas Rose Society 1994 Spring Rose Show:
• American Rose Society (ARS) Award for Best Shrub Rose
1993 Dallas Rose Society Spring Rose Show:
• American Rose Society Best Hybrid Tea Spray; Perpetual Trophy awarded
• ARS Best Grandiflora Spray Award
1992 Featured Garden in the Plano Garden Club’s “Our Favorite Gardens” Tour
1985-1991 First Prize Blue Ribbons Presented by the following:
• Northern Chicagoland Rose Society
• Northeastern Illinois Rose Society
• Libertyville, Mundelein Men’s Garden Club
1985 Twenty sixth Annual Spring Rose Show Northern Chicagoland Rose Society
• ARS Court of Honor Best Climber
• 11 additional ribbons awarded
1985 The American Rose Society’s National Rose Show, August Schaumburg, Illinois
• ARS National Award for Best Climber
• ARS Best Climber at the Botanical Garden of the Chicago Horticultural Society

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