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Design Techniques

Floral Design Techniques are the “nuts & bolts” of floral design. A good understanding of basic flower arrangement techniques is essential to complete a superior design. Accomplished floral designers are continuously studying, practicing and refining floral design techniques.

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A beautiful parallel style arrangement of dried and permanent materials like succulents, lotus pods, eucalyptus pods, and pine cones also includes elevated tapered candles.

Parallel Permanents

In this techniques video Leanne creates a beautiful parallel style arrangement of dried and permanent materials as she demonstrates an innovative technique for elevating and accentuating taper candles. Enjoy!

It’s easy to decorate a wedding cake with fresh flowers and foliage like coral spray roses, cranberry cymbidium orchids, blush roses, lime green hydrangeas, and galax leaves.

Wedding Cake Flowers

There are many ways to decorate a wedding cake with fresh flowers. Some techniques are better than others. In this video demonstration Leanne reviews a novel technique that creates a sanitary barrier between the cake and the flowers. This is a technique that you will want to add to your skills library.

Arrangements that combine green plants and blooming plants are popular for Mother’s Day. Placing them in a larger pot and adding bamboo elevates the design, then it is topped off with a bouquet of fresh spring flowers for dramatic effect.

Mothers Day Plants and Flowers

Arrangements containing green plants and blooming plants are very popular for Mother’s Day. The challenge for the progressive florist is in discovering new ways to upgrade and enhance these arrangements. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates several techniques that will make your arrangements very special and inroad their value.

A dramatic botanical style floral design displays spring flowers like hyacinths, paperwhites, iris, tulips, veronica, and curly willow on a base of lichen covered branches.

Springtime Botanical Design

The botanical style of floral design is perfectly suited for spring flowers. In this video demonstration Leanne creates a dramatic design that displays flower stems, leaves, buds, blossoms, roots and bulbs. Enjoy!

A fun and beautiful fresh heart arrangement is created with red Piano garden roses, succulents, aspidistra leaves, brunia, seeded eucalyptus, and red twig dogwood.

Garden Love

Valentine’s Day floral designs can be traditional or they can be contemporary and innovative. In this video clip Leanne creates an exciting design inspired by the garden. There are several clever techniques demonstrated in this video. Enjoy!!!!

A new and innovative floral design for Valentine’s Day mixes pink orchids, red roses, and succulents with red and silver bling for a beautiful and unique holiday gift.

Valentine’s Day Contemporary Design Techniques

Professional floral designers are always looking for new, innovative designs that will that will excite the Valentine’s Day customer who is looking for “something different”. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates a unique design that is creative and can be prepared well before the holiday.

Candles are a popular and beautiful addition to Christmas arrangements like this one with copper colored orchids, red roses, banyan vine, evergreens, and holiday decorations.

Christmas Candle Techniques

Candles are a very popular and beautiful addition to Christmas arrangements. When you move beyond a basic centerpiece the techniques for adding candles can be challenging. In this video clip Leanne shares her techniques for adding candles to a contemporary candlestick design.

A dramatic and elegant elevated centerpiece combines cranberry orchids, peach roses, vine maple, hydrangea, viburnum berries, and tillandsia in an ebony vase.

Elevated Centerpiece Techniques

Dramatic and elegant, the elevated centerpiece is on trend for weddings and events. In this techniques video, Leanne demonstrates the mechanics for creating smart and stable designs; easy to create and simple to deliver.

A delightful “pumpkin tree” displays miniature pumpkins painted in metallic colors with each one set in a hand-crafted nest of metallic wires.

Halloween Pumpkin Tree

Halloween is a time when designing can be fun and frivolous. In this video clip Leanne creates a delightful “pumpkin tree”. The miniature pumpkins are painted in metallic colors and each is set in a hand-crafted nest of metallic wires. You will enjoy this techniques demonstration.

An elegant ruffled ribbon finish on a European bridal bouquet holder is created with avocado and gold colored ribbon.

Ruffled Bridal Bouquet Back

In this video clip Leanne shares the technique for creating an elegant ruffled ribbon finish on a European Bridal Bouquet holder. This is a technique that you want to practice and add to your techniques library. Enjoy!

Holiday traditions may involve a display of special ornaments, figurines and family heirlooms like those in this arrangement composed of white roses, evergreens, lily grass, miniature pine cones, and red berries.

Designing with Christmas Figurines

Christmas is a time for traditions and often those traditions involve the displaying of special ornaments, figurines and family heirlooms. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates techniques for safely displaying figurines in a Christmas themed design.

A dramatic Bespoke garden style bouquet in pink and red hues is filled with protea, roses, cymbidium orchids, callas, curly, willow, eucalyptus, grasses, and aspidistra, then finished with a pale lavender ribbon.

Bespoke Garden Style Bridal Bouquet

One of the hottest trends in bridal bouquets is the Bespoke Garden Style Bouquet. Garden flowers seemingly gathered in a casual and carefree fashion, the style is a return to the weddings of the 1920’s and 30’s. In this video Leanne demonstrates the techniques for creating this dramatic bouquet.

Small to medium sized flower walls which mix pink roses, lavender hydrangeas, and ornamental cabbages are beautiful and add a dramatic touch to weddings and events.

Creating a Flower Wall

Flower walls are beautiful and can add a dramatic touch to weddings and events. But, just how do you create them? The construction depends on the size and planned life of the flower wall. In this video clip, Leanne demonstrates a technique for creating a simple flower wall of small to medium size designed for a short life.

This lush vintage styled table runner mixes fresh and permanent flowers and foliage like pink peonies and preserved emerald colored hydrangeas with beautiful floral ribbon.

Vintage Table Runner

Mixing fresh and permanent flowers and foliage allows the professional florist to create innovative designs that are easy and long lasting. In this techniques video Leanne creates a beautiful vintage styled table runner using a base of permanent materials, then adding fresh Ranunculus blossoms in vintage vases.

A floral chair swag is an elegant addition to a wedding, and this one is covered in a variety of pink and blush flowers and galax leaves, then it is finished with pale blue ribbons and bows on either end.

Ribboned Chair Swag

A floral chair swag is a very elegant addition to a wedding. In this techniques video Leanne demonstrates how to create an extravagant chair swag using the Oasis Floral Foam Garland. She finishes the swag with “curls “ of ribbon, bows and streamers.

Small bouquets of spring flowers and foliages like purple iris, lavender tulips, pink Gerbera daisies, white lisianthus, aspidistra, and grasses with craft touches are a very popular gift.

Spring Flower Gifts

Small bouquets of Spring Flowers are a very popular gift. In this techniques video Leanne demonstrates how to create an armature base that can be created days in advance, allowing the designer to quickly complete a beautiful gift on demand.

A creative nest of barked wire, lily grass, bay leaf, curly willow, collared wire, bullion, and yarn is the perfect setting for an accent of red, yellow, and orange spring flowers.

Spring Flower Nest

Spring flowers and Bird’s Nests just naturally go together. In this techniques video Leanne demonstrates how to fashion a very creative nest of barked wire, willow, grasses, branches, collared wire, bullion and yarn. The nest is the perfect setting for an accent of spring flowers.

This demonstrates how to create a gorgeous composite Gardenia using three Gardenia blossoms, and the result is a dramatic and fragrant blossom.

Composite Gardenia

Learning the techniques for creating composite flowers is essential for floral designers. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates how to create a gorgeous composite Gardenia using three Gardenia blossoms. The result is a dramatic and fragrant blossom.

An updated and contemporary version of the classic Valentine’s Day boxed roses, this technique is a surprise of beautiful roses hidden in a lovely gift box, which makes for a most romantic gift.

Valentine's Day Boxed Roses

This is an updated and contemporary version of the classic Valentine’s Day Boxed Roses. The surprise of beautiful roses hidden in a lovely gift box makes for a most romantic gift. Leanne shares several techniques as she demonstrates how to create this charming gift.

Whether it is a dozen red roses or a beautiful bud vase, mixing plush animals with flowers is an excellent way to enhance those Valentine’s Day floral designs.

Valentine's Day Plush Techniques

Valentine’s Day is a day that we help our customers say “I Love You”. We do it with flowers, with cards, with candy and so much more. In this video clip Leanne shares numerous creative techniques for mixing plush animals with flowers.