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 floral arrangement of black eyed Susans, heliopsis, chamomile, fatsia, euonymus, green trick dianthus, viburnum berries and lichen covered branches inside a wooden box creates this woodland garden centerpiece.

Woodland Garden Centerpiece

On-trend and in-style are natural floral designs featuring locally grown flowers and treasures gathered from the forest. In this video Leanne demonstrates the creation of a vegetative styled arrangement using flowers, foliages and materials all gathered from within a few miles of the studio. Enjoy!

A floral boutonniere of astrantia and nigella is hand-tied with twine and rests on a tile slab.

Rustic Wedding Boutonniere

In the world of floral design nothing is ever static. Styles, colors, mechanics and techniques are ever changing. In this video Leanne demonstrates an innovative technique for creating the on-trend rustic wedding boutonniere. You will love her method for storing the boutonniere prior to the wedding. Enjoy!

A floral centerpiece in a glamorous metallic gold compote bursts with Juliet garden roses, lisianthus, cymbidium orchids, dahlias, astilbe, James Storie orchids, and astrantia, all in shades of blush and burgundy, with folded ti leaves at the base.

Elegant Wedding Centerpiece

It is one thing to create a large and lavish centerpiece. It is another to create a centerpiece that is profitable for the designer. In this video Leanne shares valuable information on purchasing for profit, flower selection, and color selection as she creates a gorgeous design in the Bespoke Garden Style using flowers from FiftyFlowers.com. You will enjoy Leanne’s spotlight on the elements and principles of design in a round arrangement. Enjoy!

Flowers to wear are for animals too like this beautiful garden rose dog collar which mixes a single peach Juliet rose with galax leaves, astrantia, and heather, all affixed to a cocoa colored ribbon.

Garden Rose Dog Collar

A rapidly growing trend in the wedding flower business is flowers for pets. Many wedding couples now view their pets participation in their wedding to be just as important as the bridesmaids and the groomsmen. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates the techniques for creating a flower collar for a dog. Her model is the beautiful and very patient “Foxy.” FDI teacher Marissa is Foxy’s Mom. Foxy loves to come to the office with Marissa and really appears to enjoy being on stage. Enjoy!

A bespoke garden style bouquet in blush and burgundy shades features garden roses, cymbidium orchids, astilbe, James Storie orchids, dahlias, astrantia, and ti leaves composing a horizontal line design.

Bespoke Bridal Bouquet

In this video clip Leanne shares an on-trend bridal bouquet in the Bespoke Garden Style using a floral netting armature. Using gorgeous flowers from FiftyFlowers.com Leanne demonstrates the step-by-step creation of this luxurious bouquet. As she creates the bouquet she emphasizes proper mechanics and the elements and principles of good design. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement of summer flowers including garden roses, hydrangea, delphinium, allium, lisianthus, misty, ruscus, fatsia, and lamb's ear in a glass compote.

Chic Summer Vase

Summer is such a wonderful season for floral designers. The flower markets and gardens are filled with an abundance of flowers and foliages making each day an exciting exploration of flowers. In this video demonstration Leanne shares the techniques for creating a vase design. This is the type of design that you can make day-in-and-day-out with almost any type of flowers. Enjoy!

A tall arrangement in linear design contains liatris, delphinium, misty, bunny tail, celosia, hydrangea, fatsia leaves, lily grass, and curly willow sits in a round, blue vase.

Formal Linear Hand-Tied Bouquet

Creating a hand-tied bouquet is an essential skill that every professional floral designer must master. In this video Leanne reviews the techniques for creating a hand-tied bouquet in the formal linear design style using a natural armature of curly willow. Although challenging, mastering the formal linear style is wonderfully rewarding. Enjoy!

A woodland arrangement of tall viburnum, variegated ranunculus, antique hydrangea, and natural grasses resembling weeds nestled inside a box fashioned from moss and lichen-covered twigs and branches.

Rustic Woodland Arrangement

In this video clip Leanne explores the vegetative design style. Beginning with a Northwestern woodland styled basket she demonstrates the mechanics for constructing a watertight container, then reviews the elements of of the vegetative design style while creating a dramatic arrangement. The result is a beautiful composition of twigs, moss, lichens, ranunculus, viburnum, hydrangea and grasses Enjoy!

A floral bouquet featuring crisp white garden roses accompanied by hydrangeas, miniature cymbidiums, pieris, wax flowers, and foliages including Sprengeri, salal, Italian ruscus, Israeli ruscus, and lily grass draping down from the sides.

Classic White Hand-Tied Garden Roses

The classic Hand-Tied style of design is perfect for creating both bridal bouquets and centerpieces. In this video demonstration Leanne creates an elegant bouquet with a focus on the color white using garden roses for GardenRosesDirect.com. You will love the step-by-step techniques that Leanne reveals in creating this beautiful design. Enjoy!

A bright and colorful floral arrangement of Princess Aiko and pink piano garden roses, blue hydrangeas, yellow freesias, pastel yellow ranunculus, green trick dianthus, orchids, pink wax flower, sprengeri, and ruscus.

Sensational Mothers Day Roses

Mother’s Day is a holiday that calls for a gift of lavish and over-the-top flowers, and nothing fills the occasion like luscious garden roses. In this video demonstration Leanne creates a dazzling arrangement in an armature of floral netting with garden roses from GardenRosesDirect.com. Hydrangea, orchids, freesia, ranunculus and wax flower complete this sensational design. Enjoy!

A loosely-woven standing disc is topped with Phalaenopsis orchids, enhanced with Australian foliages, and holds bundles of Billy balls wrapped in pink bullion wire.

Contemporary Orchid Art

Sometimes we design to make a living and sometimes we design for our soul. In this video Leanne creates an amazing piece of floral art suitable for an art galley, a hotel lobby or a corporate office. The design features a single stem of phalaenopsis orchid mounted on a round woven frame. You will love this easy-to-create design. Enjoy!

Three black square containers each hold green trick dianthus, protea, craspedia, and parakeet heliconia. The addition of angled snake grass with a single hypericum berry attached at the tips creates a contemporary component.

Contemporary Component Design

Component design involves a group of floral designs each of which can stand alone or may be used together to create a larger design. Component design is an excellent merchandising technique for a retail florist. You will love the techniques demonstrated as Leanne creates a beautiful three piece ultra-contemporary design in fire colors. Enjoy!

A brass candle lantern appears to be overflowing with lily of the valley, hypericum berries, leucadendron, peach lisianthus, galax leaves, and mini carnations. A bird's nest and eggs are also inside the lantern.

Inside-Out Centerpiece

In this video Leanne demonstrates how to create maximum visual impact with minimal flowers in the creation of a centerpiece perfect for an elegant wedding or event. Beginning with a glass and brass candle lantern, Leanne uses Oasis IGLU holders to build a beautiful spring design on both the inside and the outside of the candle lantern. A bird’s nest and eggs completes the design. You will love this innovative technique. Enjoy!

A spring bouquet in a color palette of blues includes muscari, anemones, eryngium, and Brunia dyed a blue-lavender, sits in a footed urn of matching blue.

Spring Blues Design

The spring season has an abundance of wonderful blue flowers. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne shares her passion for blue flowers including her favorites, Anemones and Muscari. The arrangement is created using a floral netting armature and fresh water to accommodate the fragile stems of these spring flowers. You will love this finished design. Enjoy!

A floral bouquet starring beautiful Edith roses along with yellow-peachy freesia, burgundy lily of the valley, ruscus, lily grass, and mega bead bunches in a wine color.

Fragrant Garden Rose Bridal Bouquet

Often overlooked, fragrance is a very special part of any floral design and this is especially true of bridal bouquets. In this how-to video Leanne creates an on-trend pink rose wedding bouquet using highly fragrant flowers from GardenRosesDirect.com. The primary blossom is the “Edith” rose from David Austin Roses. This combined with Freesia and Pieres and finished with a wire collar and accenting beads make for a stunning bouquet. Enjoy!

A garland of mixed foliages includes baby eucalyptus, salal, bay leaves, Lily of the Valley, Italian ruscus, andromeda, fatsia, and curly willow.

All About Garlands

The easiest way to add drama and flair to any wedding or event is through the use of fresh foliage garlands. In this video clip Leanne discusses the many uses for different types of garlands as she demonstrates a pre-made garland, a layered garland and how to create your own custom garland using foliages from FiftyFlowers.com. She also demonstrates how to enhance garland and how to calculate the amount of foliages and the footage of garland needed for an event. Enjoy!

A springtime nested floral centerpiece of red roses, hydrangea, green trick dianthus, orange pincushion protea, hypericum berries, Italian ruscus, lily grass, galax leaves, curly willow, and maidenhair fern holds colorful plastic Easter eggs.

Easter Celebration

In this video Leanne celebrates the many colors and flowers of springtime with a beautiful nested centerpiece. A floral foam design tray filled with colorful Easter eggs is the base of this design. Leanne then creates a dramatic nest of foliages and blossoms in a triadic color harmony. As a finishing touch she adds a sheltering accent of willow and maiden hair fern. You are going to love this design. Enjoy!

A wrist adorned with a floral wrist corsage of bright orange spray roses, vivid yellow Craspedia, burgundy scabiosa buds, and little pieris seed bods in burgundy, with gold wire balls and a yellow band.

On Trend Floral Wrist Corsage

On trend for prom and wedding wrist corsages is the classic floral cuff updated with today’s materials, colors and flowers. Metallics, bling and brightly colored flowers are the look of the season. In this video clip Leanne shares the techniques for creating a floral cuff as she designs a spectacular wrist corsage. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement in pink and purple color tones contains Cymbidium orchids, scabiosa, hydrangea, roses in Garnet Gem, Yves Piaget, Eloquence, and blueberry varieties, Acacia foliage, fatsia leaves, Italian ruscus, and Aspidistra.

Garden Wedding Urn Arrangement

Since Pantone’s announcement of Ultra Violet as the color of the year we have witnessed wedding flowers becoming more vivid, brighter and more intense. In this video Leanne creates a grand garden urn in tints, tones and shades of Ultra violet. The flowers include hydrangea, orchids, garden roses and luscious foliages all from Florabundance.com. You will love the design techniques shared in this video. And, the finished design is absolutely spectacular. Enjoy!

A lavish floral arrangement of roses - Yves Piaget garden, Blueberry standard, and Eloquence spray - Delphinium, viburnum, ranunculus, Scabiosa, and acacia sit atop a silver, tall-footed compote.

Tall Compote Centerpiece

The tall footed compote is very on trend for weddings and events. In this video Leanne creates a lavish arrangement using fabulous flowers from Florabundance.com. As Leanne demonstrates the design she presents an informative lesson in the application of the elements and principles of floral design. You will love the finished design. Enjoy!