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 textural bouquet of spray roses, chocolate brown lisianthus, Scabiosa pods, Parvifolia eucalyptus, the blushing bride protea, sage, ranunculus, wine-colored Scabiosa , rice flower, and hellebores.

Fall Bridal Bouquet

In this video clip Leanne revisits the classic hand-tied bridal bouquet, updated with a loose, casual contemporary look that is so popular with todays brides. Leanne carefully demonstrates the step-by-step techniques as she creates a gorgeous, highly textural bouquet with dramatic fall flowers from Florabundance.com and finished with an elegant collar of ruched ribbon. Enjoy!

A vintage floral design of Amnesia Rose, silvered foliages, Queen Anne’s Lace in soft pink and burgundy, aubergine Scabiosa and angel wing begonia situated in a mercury glass compote.

Wedding Compote Centerpiece

On trend for wedding receptions is a vintage styled centerpiece crafted in a compote vessel. In this how-to video Leanne gathers a luscious selection of flowers and foliages beginning with the Amnesia Rose, silvered foliages, Queen Anne’s Lace in soft pink and burgundy. Egg plant colored Scabiosa and angel wing begonia finishes the luxurious look of this vintage design. Enjoy!

A bouquet of roses, tansy, echinops, Queen Anne's Lace, and ruscus is framed by a collar of midelino triangles rests in a white vase decorated with retro 6-petal flowers in colorful metallics.

Armature Collared Vase

For floral designers inspiration comes from many origins. The triadic color harmony found on a simple vase was the inspiration for the design in this how-to video. Leanne explains the triadic color harmony as she demonstrates the techniques used for crafting a collared armature and a hand-tied bouquet. The result: a dramatic, custom floral design. Enjoy!

A full, lush bouquet of tangerine and coral garden roses, bright yellow tansy, Oregonia, and Aucuba, gets a wild, foraged look from the additions of Queen Anne's lace, fennel, camellia leaves, semi-dried grasses, maple, and ivy and rests in a bubble bowl.

Summer Wildflower Bouquet

If you love flowers you must relish the summer season. Flower Shops, Farmer’s Markets, Your Garden plus the Fields and Forest are filled with beautiful flowers. Yes, some might call these flowers weeds, but a weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne mixes commercially grown flowers, garden flowers and “weeds” to create a spectacular vase bouquet using the French Weave technique. Enjoy!

A dramatic candelabra centerpiece enveloped in Garden Roses, Dahlias, Cockscomb, and Gerbera Daisies in a vibrant polychromatic color palette of red, yellow, orange, pink, and purple, plus foliages of ruscus, Oregonia, and Salal.

Candelabra Wedding Centerpiece

A Candelabra adorned with foliages and flowers can be a most dramatic Wedding Centerpiece. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne teaches the mechanics and techniques for faultless construction as she creates a stunning centerpiece using the Oasis Floral Products Netted Garland. The finished candelabra wedding centerpiece filled with Garden Roses, Dahlias, Cockscomb, and Gerbera Daisies is absolutely stunning. Enjoy!

A wrist wearing a corsage starring white and yellow Phalaenopsis orchids with Oregonia, camilla, and juniper, bows of yellow ribbon, and diamante pins adding sparkle.

Wedding Wrist Corsage

The wrist corsage is the current on-trend body flower for weddings. The fresh flower wrist corsage is comfortable to wear and allows for more freedom of movement. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne demonstrates a beautiful easy to create wrist corsage using a Slap Bracelet and Floral Adhesive from the Oasis Floral Products company. You will love the techniques demonstrated in this video. Enjoy!

An eclectic design combining fabulous dahlias and garden roses plus a surprising addition of oncidium orchids, with foliages of aucuba, camellia, and fatsia, arranged in Western Line Style inside a bronze compote vessel and accessorized with curly willow.

Colorful Dahlia Centerpiece

In this video clip Leanne revisits the elements and principles of floral design as she creates a dramatic and eclectic design with a focus on the beautiful Dahlia. As Leanne demonstrates the classic Western Line Style of design he discuses how to “break-the-rules” and mix garden flowers with exotic orchids. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement in a multicolor striped base uses an armature of triangles fashioned from rattan midollino sticks and showcases draping oncidium orchids along with dahlias, cockscomb, and phalaenopsis orchids.

Dramatic Armature Design

The design armature is a wonderful mechanic for supporting blossoms in a floral arrangement. While most armatures are hidden within the design, an artistic armature can be created to be the prominent feature of a contemporary floral design. In this video clip Leanne uses natural rattan midollino sticks to create a dramatic armature of triangle shapes as she creates a beautiful contemporary floral design. Enjoy!

A section of a garland made from camellia, juniper, Oregonia, and curly willow to create a dynamic line, adorned with garden roses in an apricot hue.

Wedding Table Garland

A custom made garland filled with several exciting foliages and embellished with fresh garden roses is one of the most dramatic, cost-effective, easy-to-create and on-trend centerpieces for a wedding reception. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates how to create a gorgeous summer wedding garland as she shares the techniques for mixing flowers and foliages. Enjoy!

A tall floral centerpiece has elegant draping phalaenopsis orchids, soft pink garden roses, delicate mint and oregano, yarrow, hot pink freesia, towering veronica, lamb's ear, and lily grass in an elevated glass vase.

Tall Wedding Reception Centerpiece

More and more we see Brides choosing an eclectic mixture of flowers, foliages and herbs for their weddings. Classic beauties like Phalaenopsis Orchids combined with herbs and roses from a home garden. In this video clip Leanne shares the alternative mechanics for creating tall reception wedding centerpieces using challenging blossoms and short stems. Enjoy!

A lively centerpiece in oval design of mini hydrangea, roses in shades of pink, lisianthus, phlox, micro gerbera daisies, and Italian ruscus.

Elegant Wedding Centerpiece

While there are many different design styles of wedding centerpieces, the classic elegance of traditional styling is often the best choice. In this how-to design video Leanne demonstrates a classic oval design style as she creates a gorgeous summer flowers wedding centerpiece. You will love the design techniques and the care & handling procedures that Leanne discusses in this video. Enjoy!

A sweeping arrangement of vibrant summertime flowers like nadia, freesia, ranunculus, Salvia, and Toulouse Lautrec garden roses complimented by blue green foliages like lamb's ear and eucalyptus.

Summer Flowers

Summer has arrived and with summer comes a brief season of gorgeous garden flowers. In this video clip Leanne creates a beautiful vase arrangement using the French weave technique. The color harmony is a bold split compliment softened with blue green foliages. This design style is one that you will want to create often this summer. Enjoy!

A trio of boutonnieres: one with a soft pink camellia against green trick dianthus with a spiral of silver wire, another with a small succulent and a jewel, the third with more green trick dianthus and a micro gerbera.

Easiest Wedding Boutonniere Ever

As the wedding season approaches it’s time to take a look at a fresh approach to wedding boutonnieres. In this video clip Leanne shares new mechanics for creating fast and easy updated boutonnieres with a lot of style and a lot of fun. You are going to love this time saving technique as your prepare this season’s wedding flowers. Enjoy!

An elegant bridal bouquet using classic garden roses combined with fragrant gardenias, stephanotis and hypericum berries.

Fragrant Bridal Bouquet

Fragrance can be a very important element of floral design. When creating bridal bouquets fragrance can be essential. In this video how-to Leanne creates an elegant bridal bouquet in a straight handled bouquet holder using classic garden roses combined with fragrant gardenias and stephanotis. You will love the wealth of techniques shared in this demonstration. Enjoy!

A blue prize ribbon sits between a duo of Western Line Styled Arrangements featuring striking red garden roses against the greens of grasses, leaf-laden branches, and ivy in matching blue urns.

Flowers for Summer Celebrations

Summer has arrived and Leanne believes that all summer holidays and celebrations should always include flowers. Leanne’s favorite summer flower, Garden Roses of course. In this video how-to Leanne demonstrates how to create a duo of Western Line Styled Arrangements perfect for framing a summer picnic buffet or Mom’s blue ribbon winning apple pie. Enjoy!

A dramatic vertical arrangement in bright yellow featuring bearded iris, roses and craspedia with lily grass, galax, and Italian ruscus foliages sitting in a bamboo container.

Elegant Bearded Iris

A favorite early summer flower is the Bearded Iris. The season is short, but the elegant beauty of this blossom is not to be missed. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne creates an Asian inspired bamboo container then designs a dramatic vertical arrangement of Bearded Iris, Roses and Craspedia. Enjoy!

A formal line floral design starring dramatic birds of paradise along with exotic pincushion protea, red roses, hypericum berries, arced lily grass, and fatsia leaves positioned in a shallow purply tray.

Formal Linear Floral Design

Participating in a floral design competition is something that Leanne recommends to all students and graduates. A competition or evaluation session forces a designer to stretch and grow beyond their comfort level. In this video clip Leanne shares tips for designing for completion as she creates a dramatic arrangement in the formal linear design style. Enjoy!

A bespoke garden style centerpiece featuring flowering cherry blossom branches, Love Lies Bleeding, lilacs, poppies, lisianthus, salal, fatsia, and dusty miller.

Bespoke Garden Styled Lilac Centerpiece

Many of our favorite spring and early summer flowers like Lilacs, Love-Lies-Bleeding and Poppies require a large reservoir of water that is easy to absorb making the classic mechanic of a floral netting armature perfect showcasing these blossoms. In this video clip Leanne creates a fabulous Mother’s Day Centerpiece as she shares the techniques for creating a Bespoke Garden Styled Lilac Centerpiece. Enjoy!

Classic Hand-Tied Garden Rose Bridal Bouquet

Classic Hand-Tied Garden Rose Bridal Bouquet

The classic hand-tied bouquet style is one of the finest ways to showcase beautiful garden roses. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates the technique for creating a classic hand-tied bouquet. The technique does require practice. Leanne recommends that you practice with older flowers, creating a bouquet, then taking it apart and creating another bouquet, over and over, until you master the technique. Then, reward yourself with a gorgeous personal bouquet using flowers from GardenRosesDirect.com. Enjoy!

A bouquet of garden roses in soft peaches and pale pinks accompanied by Italian ruscus.

Garden Rose Bridal Bouquet

Luscious Garden Roses are the rose of choice for bridal bouquets and with quality flowers and supplies is is very easy to create dramatic bouquets. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates the techniques for creating a bridal bouquet using a round Oasis European holder, a silver wire armature and fabulous roses from GardenRosesDirect.com. Enjoy!