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 centerpiece in copper tones features copper-hued Toffee Roses, seeded Lily of the Valley bush, Hypericum, Salal, fatsia leaves, and cymbidium orchids. Blades of lily grass are artfully tied and strewn about over the top of the arrangement.

Copper Warmth Centerpiece

Copper accents are on trend for 2018. With its orange and red tones and overall earthy hue, copper is a wonderful accent for flowers and other natural materials. In this video clip Leanne creates a lavish classic round centerpiece as she fills a copper bowl with copper hued Toffee Roses, seeded Lily of the Valley bush and Hypericum. As a final touch Leanne uses Lily Grass to shelter the arrangement adds a touch of copper to the Lily Grass with copper hog rings. Enjoy!

A bespoke style bouquet combines the soft lavender Eloquence roses, Garnet Gem spray roses, Blueberry roses, Yves Piaget garden rose, peonies, sweet pea, scabiosa, viburnum, and the impressive Elegance Bianco Striato ranunculus.

Bespoke Bridal Bouquet

In this video how-to demonstration Leanne creates a dramatic Bespoke Garden Styled Bridal Bouquet featuring flowers from Florabundance.com. There are many techniques for creating a bridal bouquet. A currently popular technique is the use of a floral netting or chicken wire armature for the bouquet. This technique is a bit of a challenge at first, but with practice it becomes easy. This is a method that you will want to master and add to your skills library.

White roses and hydrangeas are accompanied by foliages of fatsia aralia, italian ruscus, and lily grass in a chic barrel lantern container.

Fastest Roses Ever

Speed Design for the Professional Floral Designer. 

Speed design is a subject that is rarely discussed or demonstrated. However, when faced with a major holiday and orders for hundreds of arrangements it is an essential skill for the professional floral designer. In this video Leanne demonstrates how to create an elegant arrangement of 12 roses and 5 hydrangea in one minute and 33 seconds. Enjoy!

A springtime floral design of budding magnolia branches, hyacinth plants with exposed bulbs and roots, tall iris blooms, tulips in a happy yellow, Monte Casino flowers, and galax leaves at the base sits in a ceramic square container.

Spring Botanical Floral Design

One of the great joys of being a floral designer is that we can move ahead of the seasons. It may be the middle of winter, but that doesn’t stop us from creating beautiful springtime arrangements. In this video Leanne demonstrates the basics of creating botanical styled designs as she creates a sensational springtime arrangement filled with spring bulb flowers. Enjoy!

Six black bud-vases, each holding single Blueberry roses with a combination of foliages like tree fern, ruscus, lily grass, Misty Latifolium, and fatsia leaves. The three vases to the left have bows tied of purple ribbon.

Valentine's Day Production Techniques

Developing strong production design skills is essential the professional floral designer. To be successful a designer must be fast as well as creative. In this video Leanne shares techniques for Valentine’s Day production. The key is organization and practice. With careful planing and good production skills, busy holidays can be a joy.

A bridal bouquet containing Blueberry roses, Eryngium, spray roses, China Aster in deep purple, magenta Tulips, and Silver Dollar Eucalyptus, tied in purple ribbons, creates a vibrant Ultra Violet palette.

Ultra Violet Bridal Bouquet

Floral designers across the country are celebrating the Pantone Color of the Year. Ultra Violet is a wonderful complement for flowers and is a perfect palette for weddings of all seasons. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates the techniques used in creating a beautiful hand-tied bridal bouquet using tints, tones and shades of Ultra Violet. Enjoy!

A long, low bouquet combines Sweet Peas, Lisianthus, Ranunculus and Scabiosa buds in shades of pinks and purples with Gunni and seeded eucalyptus in a Dusty Miller wrapped bouquet holder.

Spring Flowers Bridal Bouquet

The Pantone 2018 Color of the Year, Ultra Violet was the inspiration for this delightful spring bridal bouquet. Leanne combines Sweet Peas, Lisianthus, Ranunculus and Scabiosa buds in a Dusty Miller wrapped bridal bouquet holder as she demonstrates the techniques used in creating this bouquet. Enjoy!

A centerpiece filled with evergreens, bayleaf, white hydrangea, roses, and Dendrobium orchids is accented with gold ribbon and holiday ornaments and holds three tall, skinny white candles.

Classic Candlelight Centerpiece

The perfect centerpiece for Christmas entertaining includes the warm glow of candlelight. In this video Leanne creates a spectacular design filled with evergreens, bayleaf, white hydrangea, roses and Dendrobium orchids as she shares her techniques for adding candles to a floral centerpiece. Enjoy!

A festive green urn holds this elegant centerpiece of cedar, pine, and noble evergreens, plus leaves of magnolia, adorned with roses and hydrangea in chartreuse. Pine cones give a natural touch, and decorative orbs fashioned of copper wire add shine.

Elegant Christmas Centerpiece

It is so exciting to see the many different design styles used in holiday design. Everything from whimsical novelty to lavish bespoke garden style. But, sometimes nothing but classic elegance will do. In this video Leanne demonstrates how to create a sophisticated, contemporary centerpiece in a green and copper palette. Enjoy!

A lively tropical bouquet featuring cymbidium, succulents, ginger blooms, palm, Tillandsia, brunia, garden roses, spray roses, tea leaves and foliages like ruscus, lily grass, plumosa, fatsia aralia, and seeded eucalyptus.

Tropical Bridal Bouquet

The use of tropical flowers, plants and foliages in bridal bouquets and other wedding designs is on-trend and rapidly growing in popularity. A great place to explore new tropical plants and flowers is the annual Tropical Plant International Exposition. In this video clip Leanne creates a beautiful bespoke garden-styled tropical flower wedding bouquet using a chicken wire armature. Leanne carefully demonstrates the various techniques necessary for keeping the bouquet light, functional and dramatic. Enjoy!

An evergreen wreath enhanced with magnolia leaves and cryptomeria is decorated with pink cymbidium orchids, magnolia buds on branches, and pine cones.

Bespoke Styled Holiday Wreath

In this video clip Leanne creates a spectacular holiday wreath in the bespoke garden style. The design is loose, wild and filled with woodland treasures. Mixed evergreens, cryptomeria, magnolia leaves and sculptural branches create a dramatic base. The addition of elegant rust colored cymbidium orchid blossoms are the perfect enhancement for this dramatic design. Enjoy!

A centerpiece of five white pillar candles sitting at various heights in a bed of green trick dianthus, ruscus, white roses, hypericum berries, and baby's breath sits in a long woven basket.

Thanksgiving Centerpiece in White

Most Thanksgiving arrangements are created in the fire hues of orange, red and yellow. But, a different color palette can be wonderfully refreshing at the end of the autumn season. In this video Leanne creates a gorgeous pillar candle design using green foliages and white roses. Enjoy!

An Autumn floral centerpiece of sunflowers, celosia, leucadendron, Nandina leaves, chrysanthemums in the deep vibrant hues of the fall season, and shiny round apples in a  ceramic dish laid in a saucer.

Sunflowers and Apples Thanksgiving Centerpiece

A centerpiece filled with sunflowers and apples combined with fall flowers and foliages is the essence of the autumn season. In this how-to video Leanne demonstrates the mechanics and techniques for securing apples in a beautiful and long lasting Thanksgiving Centerpiece. Enjoy!

A round tin container holds an overflowing arrangement of cottage yarrow, Asclepias, pomegranates, decorative blackberries, spray roses, cockscomb Celosia, chocolate phlox, bunny tail, and orchids draping over the sides.

Dramatic Thanksgiving Centerpiece

The Thanksgiving holiday is a celebration of friends, family and traditions. And, while we love traditional floral centerpieces, sometimes we want something different. In this video clip Leanne creates a contemporary round centerpiece with gorgeous flowers from Florabundance.com. You will love this stunning mixture of traditional autumn flowers combined with orchids, blackberries and pomegranates. Enjoy!

Seemingly bursting out of a large pumpkin are fresh fall flowers like celosia, pincushion protea, hypericum, leucadendron, foliages, and colorful autumn leaves. A faux spider and webs complete the design.

Halloween Pumpkin Tricks

One simply cannot decorate for the autumn season without pumpkins. Pumpkins can be filled with flowers, placed in floral arrangements or decked with garlands of flowers. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne shows how to take any autumn arrangement and turn it into a frightful Halloween arrangement. Enjoy!

Seemingly bursting out of a large pumpkin are fresh fall flowers like celosia, pincushion protea, hypericum, leucadendron, foliages, and colorful autumn leaves. A bow is tied with brown ribbon on the pumpkin's stem.

Autumn Floral Pumpkin

A large pumpkin combined with fresh fall flowers, foliages, and colorful autumn leaves makes a beautiful, grand centerpiece. In this how-to demonstration Leanne shares the techniques for creating a unique floral pumpkin design, perfect for autumn entertaining. Enjoy!

Coral calla lilies and curly willow swirl and wrap around their base, which also holds hypericum berries, textural celosia, and lotus pods.

Autumn Winds Centerpiece

The seasons are changing, leaves are falling and the winds are blowing. Dried grasses and branches tumble and wind around each other. This was the inspiration for this contemporary floral design. Leanne shares the techniques for winding callas in this magnificent centerpiece. Enjoy!

A lavish arrangement in Flemish style uses an oval design created from Kangaroo paw, chocolate phlox, roses, pomegranates, James story orchids, millet, amaranthus, agonis, scabiosa pods, montbretia pods, bittersweet, and helecho fern in a cast iron urn.

Classic Flemish Floral Design

The inspiration for this video clip was a trip to the Portland Art Museum to view an exhibition of Old Masters paintings. While many of these paintings were created centuries ago, the style is still popular and is currently on-trend. You will love Leanne’s discussion of Flemish style as she creates an opulent floral arrangement using flowers and foliages from Florabundance.com. Enjoy!

A bouquet of light pink peonies, hot pink hydrangea, and deep red roses with ruscus, fatsia, and lily grass, and accessorized with curly willow.

Autumn Peony Bouquet

It does seem odd to mention autumn, peonies and pink in the same sentence. But thanks to the commercial production of flowers in Alaska, peonies are readily available during the autumn season. In this video clip Leanne discusses and demonstrates how to introduce black to a pink monochromatic color harmony to create a shade that moves pink into an autumn color palette. Leanne’s curly willow armature technique creates a gorgeous autumn arrangement. Enjoy!

A floral wreath, in soft pinks and blues, filled with hydrangea blossoms, hybrid roses and spray roses. Foliage of Israeli Ruscus and Spring Rye fill out the wreath with sections wrapped in small bundles of Beargrass.

Opulent Sympathy Wreath

Proficiency in creating sympathy designs is critical for a successful floral designer. In this video clip Leanne creates a beautiful large wreath which could be placed on an easel stand or laid flat at a graveside. The wreath is designed on a 15 inch floral foam wreath, based with foliages and filled with hydrangea blossoms, hybrid roses and spray roses. The focus is on good mechanics and technique, assuring a long lasting and stable sympathy design. Enjoy!