If you are dreaming of becoming a florist but are starting from scratch, today’s video might be helpful for you! I am talking about 6 steps you need to take to get your floral career going! Please let me know if you have any questions!

A few of the resources I mentioned in the video:

My secret sources for purchasing floral ingredients (a free workshop!)

Become a florist: a checklist to walk you through the next 23 steps to get started!

Our floral career courses: Floral Foundations and A Career with Flowers

Free flower arranging resources

I say this in class a lot, but getting to know your suppliers is so important! Today I took a field trip to visit one of my new flower suppliers, Flor Daninha, in Sintra. Mariana runs a very special, regenerative flower farm that has been in her family for a long time.

Chickens run wild and the farm sits under the shadows of castles. Sintra is a very special microclimate so it is a particularly good place to grow as it gets a lot of rain and rarely goes to freezing. The quality of the flowers is superb.

If you want to learn how to find your own local suppliers, come to my free workshop, all about flower sourcing! Book your spot here.

P.S.

We will be visiting some flower farms on our 2022 retreats in Portugal. Sign up here to get on the waitlist.

Follow this process to make your flower arrangements last longer. You can extend the vase life of your flowers weeks and weeks by simply refreshing your arrangements like this! It cuts down on waste and helps you make the most of your flower arrangements. This process is great to teach your clients as  well, so they can fully enjoy your arrangements for the maximum time frame.

-Remove all the flowers

- Pour out the old water into your garden or flower pots

-Wash and dry your vase

-Fill with fresh water

-Separate the ingredients to compost and the ingredients that still look good

-Compost the old ingredients

-Refresh stems by removing leaves and brown bits and cutting them shorter

-Start rebuilding the arrangement with the old greenery

-Add in fresh greens and flowers where necessary

Watch the full tutorial above! 

You can download this free checklist to help you keep your flowers fresh, each time you make an arrangement. Download the checklist here.

Enjoy your flowers!

Here is a little catch up on flowers and the garden. Check out the September flower vlog, below! I hope you enjoy! Let me know what you’ve been arranging lately-

-Chelsea

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Let’s learn how to make a large flower arrangement for a wedding or event! Sometimes people try to get a bit too intricate with tall arrangements. In this video, I show how to make the dahlias and other flowers look effortless and natural in a tall arrangement with big impact.

You want to pay attention to scale. Use flowers that are naturally tall. Don´t try to put short stemmed flowers in here.  Place any flowers with smaller blooms at a taller height and keep larger blossoms at the base. In this particular example, I am focusing on mostly a pale pink color, using flowers in three different sizes: large dahlias, medium-sized aster blooms, and smaller strawflowers. From there, I add more height and texture using cosmos, monarda greens, ammi, and oat grass. 

Recipe:

6 dahlias

10 stems asters

15 stems cosmos

10 stems strawflower

3 stems monarda greenery

5 stems ammi

1 stem oat grass

Watch the full workshop, below! If you make an arrangement inspired by this video, post it on Instagram under #frolicflowerclass.

To stream our free, flower sourcing workshop, sign up here to access the on-demand workshop!