Flower School Video Library

The Flower School Video Library is the world’s largest collection of online flower arrangement video demonstrations. Subjects range from flower care and handling, design basics and wedding flowers, to advanced design techniques and styles. This library is viewed by thousands of floral design professionals and students throughout the world every day. Produced exclusively by Floral Design Institute, the video clips in this library are free to all. Enjoy!

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A lavish centerpiece mixes five varieties of garden roses accented with hellebores, two varieties of ranunculus, and peonies in dark pink, blush, and light pink colors.

Winter Wedding Centerpiece

Foam free and fabulous, a winter wedding design featuring flowers from Florabundance.com and GardenRosesDirect.com. You will love this over-the-top lavish centerpiece. Five varieties of garden roses accented with hellebores, two varieties of ranunculus and peonies complete this marvelous design. Enjoy!

A wedding bouquet mixes several kinds of garden roses in red and blush colors with peonies, eryngium, berzillia, silver dollar eucalyptus, fatsia leaves, lily grass, and Italian ruscus.

Winter Wedding Bouquet

Garden roses and textural accents are on-trend for winter weddings. Beginning with luxurious garden roses from GardenRosesDirect (You’ll love the Golden Mustard variety!) Leanne added beautiful accent blooms from Florabundance (check out the gorgeous peonies!) This armature based hand-tie bouquet is sure to be a favorite!

A beautiful round arrangement mixes Bosc pears, autumn chrysanthemums, dahlias, spray roses, leucadendron, Italian ruscus, salal, and oregonia.

Autumn Pear Harvest

Fruits and vegetables make wonderful additions to autumn floral arrangements. In this Flower-School-How-To-Video Leanne demonstrates the techniques for adding fruit to an arrangement as she creates a beautiful round arrangement with Bosc pears, autumn chrysanthemums, dahlias and spray roses. Enjoy!!!

An arrangement in a unique analogous color scheme features grevillea, leucadendron, lisianthus, stock, and spray roses.

Thanksgiving Candle Centerpiece

Candlelight adds warmth and a feeling of security to a Thanksgiving gathering of family and friends. In this Flower School How-To Video Leanne uses flame leaf ash, grevillea, leucadendron, camellia for a base of foliages, then adds lisianthus, stock, hybrid tea roses and spray roses to create a gorgeous design in a unique analogous color scheme. The addition of pillar and votive candles completes this fantastic arrangement. Enjoy!

A floral centerpiece features green apples, hydrangeas, green trick dianthus, mini carnations, and hypericum.

Apple Centerpiece

It’s harvest time and in the pacific northwest that means apple season. The farmer’s markets are filled with literally hundreds of varieties of apples. Each apple has a distinctive flavor, but to the designer it’s the wonderful myriad of colors to be enjoyed. Green, yellow, gold, pink, red, and burgundy. A delight to the designer’s eye. In this Flower School Video How-To Leanne demonstrates the techniques for designing with apples as she creates a lovely apple centerpiece. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement in white mixes hydrangeas, mini carnations, monte casino, and spray roses with Italian ruscus, salal, and aspidistra.

Winter Whites

White is the color that can brighten the grey and dreary days of winter. In this Flower School Video How-To demonstration Leanne creates a lovely natural weave vase arrangement without floral foam, chicken wire or any other armature. The basic form is constructed of white hydrangea and assorted foliages. White carnations, mini-carnations, Monte Casino and spray roses. Dried and bleached oak leaves and Italian Ruscus completes the look. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement in dark burgundy and orange colors is created in a curved pumpkin using spray mums, cherry brandy roses and leucadendron.

Pumpkin Flower Arrangement

Autumn has arrived. The markets are filled with pumpkins, gourds and beautiful autumn flowers. In this Flower School How-To video Leanne combines autumn flowers and a pumpkin to create a marvelous autumn arrangement. You will love the unique technique used to prepare the pumpkin for the addition of flowers. Enjoy!!!!!

A compote arrangement in green, yellow and purple colors is filled with hydrangeas, dianthus, ranunculus, and salal tips.

Winter Transition

Changing seasons bring great joy, challenges and opportunities for the professional floral designer. In this Flower School How-To Video Leanne addresses the change between autumn and winter as she creates an innovative foam free design of hydrangeas, dianthus, and ranunculus set in a base of pine cones. Enjoy!

An autumn basket floral design mixes chrysanthemums, spray roses, ranunculus, and lisianthus in deep red and dusty pink colors.

Autumn Basket Arrangement

One of the joys of designing with late season flowers is that they are naturally long lasting. Late season chrysanthemums and hydrangeas will hold for weeks and hydrangeas will dry beautifully within an arrangement. In this Flower School How-To Video Leanne creates a traditional autumn basket design updated with today’s flowers and an contemporary flair. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement is inspired by autumn flowers such as sunflowers, chrysanthemums, dahlias, autumn leaves, vines, pods and grasses in yellow and orange colors.

Autumn Traditions Centerpiece

Sunflowers, Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, autumn leaves, vines, pods and grasses make up the traditional flowers and foliages of autumn. In this Flower School video Leanne demonstrates how to create a traditional round centerpiece using floral foam in a gorgeous earth-tone container. The finished design is beautiful and perfect for autumn entertaining. Enjoy!

A dramatic elevated design in an analogous color palette features dahlias, rose hips, hanging amaranthus, echinacea pods, asclepias, leucadendron, and passion flower vine.

Elevated Autumn Design

Using a gorgeous red Dahlia as inspiration Leanne creates a dramatic elevated design in an analogous color palette. Leanne shares an innovative technique using an Oasis O’DAPTER holder and Midnight foam. The use of rose hips, hanging amaranthus and fruit bearing passion flower vine make this design sensational. Enjoy!

A hand-tied bouquet in burgundy, deep red and dusty pink colors features antique hydrangeas, dahlias, roses, and mini-carnations, blackberries, eucalyptus, and smokebush foliage.

Antique Autumn Hand-Tie

Antique Hydrangeas and Burgundy Dahlias combine for an amazing color palette. In this Flower School How-To Video Leanne creates a stunning foam-free hand-tied design ready to drop into an elegant vase. The bouquet is finished with roses, mini-carnations, blackberries and smokebush foliage. A collar of draping eucalyptus foliage completes this awesome design. Enjoy

Autumn Floral Hurricane

Autumn Floral Hurricane

In this Flower School How-To Video Leanne creates a lavish arrangement perfect for an autumn event. The arrangement is set in a Victorian styled hurricane lantern box. The flowers and foliages are an eclectic mix of autumn flowers, foliages, vines and pods from Florabundance. The addition of a pillar candle completes this beautiful design. Enjoy!

A vegetative style arrangement mixes a variety of materials like myrtle, elderberry, salvia, sedum, pink scabiosa.  astrantia, white scabiosa, and dried and preserved oak leaves.

Floral Meadow Arrangement

The late summer season abounds with grasses, wild flowers and dried materials. In this flower school video demonstration Leanne creates a beautiful foam free design in the vegetative style. The vegetative style is a design created “as nature grows” with flowers from the same region and in the same season. Enjoy!

A colorful and rustic garden flower arrangement in yellow and orange color palette features sunflowers, craspedia, and pincushion protea.

Fall Floral Arrangement

The late summer season is a wonderful time for floral designers. Colorful garden flowers are plentiful and autumn colors are beginning to appear. In this flower school video demonstration Leanne creates a beautiful fall arrangement perfect for home entertaining. Enjoy this demonstration and get ready for what is expected to be a very busy time for entertaining at home.

A beautiful sympathy flower wreath features High Magic orange roses and Freedom red roses mixed with leucadendron, myrtle, aspidistra leaves, and salal tips.

Funeral Flower Arrangement

Sympathy work and memorial tributes are some of the most important designs that we create as professional florists. Understanding excellent floral mechanics and techniques is essential. In this flower school how-to video Leanne creates a beautiful floral wreath as she demonstrates proper mechanics and design techniques. Enjoy!

Flower arrangements in four different colored vases: white, green, yellow and orange combine spray roses, Gerbera daisies, craspedia,  safflower, Israeli ruscus, leather fern, and salal.

The Power of Color

The focus of this Flower School How-To video is on color theory. Leanne creates five separate, but identical bouquets in an extended analogous color harmony then places the bouquets in five vases of different colors, one complementary and two analogous plus the neutrals black and white. This is a wonderful demonstration of the power of color. Enjoy!

A crescent design arrangement in orange, yellow, and light green colors features sunflowers, snapdragons, craspedia, and kangaroo paws.

Crescent Design Form

There are hundreds of recognized design forms and styles which go in and out of style over time. A design form currently gaining popularity is the Crescent Design. In this Flower School How-To video Leanne demonstrates this design form as she creates a beautiful classic crescent floral arrangement. Enjoy!

A beautiful Ikebana style design features yellow chrysanthemums, green Bells of Ireland, fatsia leaves, and solidaster in a dark blue ceramic vase.

Designing with a Kenzan

The Kenzan is a floral mechanic used to hold cut flowers in place in a floral arrangement. Literally translated, Kenzan means “sword mountain”. It consists of a heavy lead plate fixed with erect brass needles. First used around 1890 with the introduction of the Moribana style of Ikebana design it remains a very popular mechanic among floral designers. Enjoy as Leanne creates a simple, yet beautiful design in the Moribana style.

A classic vase of flowers in a pink, red and lavender color palette is created by mixing roses, carnations, ranunculus, and tulips with scabiosa pods and Queen Anne's lace.

Classic Vase of Flowers

A classic vase of flowers designed without floral foam is the most popular of all floral arrangements. Vase arrangements can be small, tall or grand in size and can be tailored to fit any occasion. In this flower school video Leanne demonstrates several foliage techniques as she creates a stunning floral arrangement in a low glass vase.