FLOWER SCHOOL PROGRAMME
2025
THE ART OF
DRIED FLOWERS
15 February 2025 | 10am-3pm
Learn how to grow, dry and arrange dried flowers, celebrating their everlasting beauty and unique charm. Create two everlasting arrangements; a dried wreath and a dried bouquet arrangement in our highly gestural and natural style. Learn how to create a dried flower garden of your own including key plants to grow for drying.
SUSTAINABLE
FUNERAL FLOWERS
15-16 March 2025 | 10am-3pm
Learn alternative, and sustainable methods to create funeral tributes that are meaningful, celebratory and natural. This two day course will provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to be able to produce three naturally styled sympathy designs using foam-free techniques; a living wreath, a handtied sheaf and a teardrop casket spray.
31 March-4 April 2025 | 10am-3pm
25-29 August 2025 | 10am-3pm
A comprehensive training course that is packed full of practical and business skills required to develop your own creative floristry business. The course covers core floristry skills as well as planning events, photography, branding, marketing, insurance, pricing, and running a sustainable business.
THE SPRING
CUTTING GARDEN
14 April 2025 | 10am-1pm
Celebrate the exquisite flowers of the Spring cutting garden and learn the principles of garden-inspired floral arranging with flowers that you can grow in your own garden. Enhance your personal floristry design style with sustainability, beauty and meaning at the forefront. Learn how to start a cutting garden and create floral arrangements to truly love and admire.
FLORAL ACCESSORIES
24 May 2025 | 2-5pm
Learn how to make 3x intricate wearable designs working with fresh flowers to create beautiful floral accessories. Learn how to work with fresh flowers to make a boutonniere, a hair comb and a wristlet in our signature garden-gathered and delicate style without the use of wires, glue or plastic, using 100% natural and compostable materials and our innovative, signature techniques.
31 May 2025 | 11am-3pm
27 September 2025 | 11am-3pm
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Immerse yourself in the magical world of flowers and floristry with a day of talks, presentations and demos. Meet the Days of Dahlia tutors, get a feel for our flower school, learn more about the next round of workshops, ask questions, and meet kindred spirits who are also interested in flowers and floristry.
GARDEN-STYLE
BOUQUETS
14 June 2025 | 2-4pm
Learn how to master the art of the classic handtie in our highly gestural, intricate, garden-inspired version of the traditional twist technique. On this workshop you will create a beautiful bouquet to take home, finished with your choice of our botanically dyed ribbons, wrapped in tissue and your own glass vase and presentation box.
INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE FLORISTRY
25 June 2025 | 1-4pm
Gain industry insight on sustainability and knowledge in cutting-edge floristry design. In our relaxed studio environment, we will introduce you to the foundations of sustainable floristry with guidance on how to make three floristry designs using alternative mechanics with no floral foam.
4 July 2025 | 10am-1pm
Experience the exquisite flowers of the Summer cutting garden and learn the principles of garden-inspired floral arranging with flowers that you can grow in your own garden. Enhance your personal floristry design style with sustainability, beauty and meaning at the forefront. Learn how to start a cutting garden and create floral arrangements to truly love and admire.
WEDDING FLOWERS COURSE
14-16 July 2025 | 10am-3pm
An in-depth, three-day sustainable floristry course in designing beautiful, naturalistic, garden-inspired wedding flowers. We will introduce you to our creative approach to designing flowers for weddings. Learn how to source seasonal materials and create arrangements in a garden-gathered style using sustainable 'foam-free' techniques.
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BOUQUET
IMPROVERS
21 August 2025 | 5-8pm
A workshop for professional florists or more experienced flower arrangers who want to improve their bouquet making techniques and develop their expertise, dexterity and proficiency in creating a range of handties in a highly gestural, intricate, garden-inspired version of traditional techniques.
THE AUTUMN CUTTING GARDEN
15 September 2025 | 10am-1pm
Experience the exquisite flowers of the Summer cutting garden and learn the principles of garden-inspired floral arranging with flowers that you can grow in your own garden. Enhance your personal floristry design style with sustainability, beauty and meaning at the forefront. Learn how to start a cutting garden and create floral arrangements to truly love and admire.
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11 October 2025 | 10am-1pm
Learn how to extract colour from plants and flowers and dye natural fabrics in a variety of soft and botanical colours with flowers, plants, food waste, and other botanical materials. Learn how to create a dye garden of your own including key plants to grow for creating botanical dyes.
THE FLORAL
THEATRE
26 October 2025 | 10am-4pm
Create an immersive sculptural installation in our flower studio and learn how to create large scale installations. Take the mystery and difficulty out of removing floral foam from your floristry practice and join us on a fun workshop packed with practical, in-depth knowledge, and beautiful solutions for creating show-stopping, sculptural installations without foam.
THE ART OF
DRIED FLOWERS
16 November 2025 | 10am-3pm
Learn how to grow, dry and arrange dried flowers, celebrating their everlasting beauty and unique charm. Create two everlasting arrangements; a dried wreath and a dried bouquet arrangement in our highly gestural and natural style. Learn how to create a dried flower garden of your own including key plants to grow for drying.