Our first schedule of the year is now love! Join us for Early Spring Flower School!
As part of our Early Spring Flower School, I’ll be walking you through the very first steps to start your career in Floristry. Gain confidence with your own designs, your own style, and lay the first parts of your foundation for your floral design career.
-Learn how to own your creativity and not be afraid to share your work.
-Gain confidence in floral design so you aren’t afraid to call yourself a floral designer!
-Master the basics of working with fresh flowers.
-Procure and solidify your flower sourcing.
-Learn my blueprint for a successful flower arrangement.
-Find your own style and niche.
-Get personalized feedback and group coaching from me!
-Current career students attend the conference for free!
-Download our done for you cheatsheets to start bulding your systems around sourcing, flower recipes, and pricing.
Learn how to condition, prep, and design with bulbs like daffodils, hyacinth, tulips, and paper whites. You can attend class for the demo, or join with your own locally sourced bulb flowers for the arrangement portion.
Recipe and supply lists will go out closer to class but the recipes are fluid and you should use what is seasonally available in your area.
Kickstart your flower studies with this intro 3 day online workshop and conference. You’ll learn the next steps you need to take to get your floristry career started. Learn how to own your creativity, gain confidence in standard floral practices, how to work sustainably, and how you can procure work as a florist. This class is ideal for those who need to jumpstart their studies, or want to discover if floristry is the right career path. No previous experience necessary. Great for newbies and also for those already in flower school who need a reboot.
Own Your Creativity
Gain Confidence as a Designer
Procure your Floral Sourcing
How to Find your Niche as a Designer
How to Create Floral Recipes
You can attend for the demos and classes or you can join us with your own local flowers to make the two arrangements we will be featuring. Recipe and supply lists will go out closer to class but the recipes are fluid and you should use what is seasonally available in your area.
You’ll leave class with a plan for your next stap and two flower arrangements.
I am back from my January sabbatical and an unexpected internet outage!
Today I am sharing winter flower arranging ideas for your home.
Take the chance to engage with nature, even in these cooler months. Bring nature inside and watch what emerges!
-Paperwhites and forced bulbs. Plant bulbs in pots throughout the winter and place them in a Southwest facing window. Water sparingly after their initial planting. Watch the leaves and flowers emerge over a few weeks.
-Forced branches. Take a walk into a garden or trail and clip brances like lilac, crabapple, forsythia, or quince. Bring the branches inside, mist with water, cut like this, and then place in water. After a few weeks leaves and flowers will begin emerging, Be sure to mist every 3 days and to change the water frequently.
Wreath workshop season is here! I’ve been teaching classes every day this week for team-building workshops and for private groups (if you want to bring me to your office or party, I still have a couple of dates left here).
If you own my book Field, Flower, Vase, you can find several compostable wreath methods in the book. Here are the projects in the book that can be adapted to the holiday season:
Green Garden Wreath (learn to make a wreath base) Page 221
Tisane Wreath (teaches you the weaving method for the decorative portion) page 153
I spent an afternoon arranging autumn flowers on a flower farm in Sintra. You can learn more about Mariana’s organic flower farm here. The baskets belonged to her grandmother. It is a family estate where she is now growing flowers for floristry, organically. The setting is rustic and beautiful. I loved combing through the gardens for hydrangea, pokeweed, and pomegranate.
I hope you enjoy a snippet of this beautiful afternoon! If you would like to join me in Portugal next May for moments like this, check out our 2023 Retreats!
The retreat dates for 2022 are now live! You are invited to join me for flower arranging, foraging, and garden touring in Lisbon, Sintra, and Mafra next spring and fall!
We have three retreats next year. Our first retreat is sold out so we opened up more dates, and two different types of retreats!
