Six-Week Introduction Course to the Floristry Industry

Thinking about a career in floristry, or simply want to build real skills with flowers? This is where you can start.This six-week, intimate hands-on course is an immersion into the techniques every florist needs — taught by someone who has spent nearly three decades mastering them.Start any time - Limited to 4 students so you receive the best guidance. Weeks run in rotation - Book one session or all 6.Meet Your Teachers: Cassy Canterford.Nearly 30 years in floristry, across 10 different businesses — shopfronts, online floristry, freelance design, and wholesale. Cassy started as an apprentice and worked her way up to senior florist and creative director of Flowers for Jane. She knows these techniques inside out, and she's bringing that experience straight into your hands.Your Six-Week Hands-On JourneyEach week includes time spent photographing or videoing your finished work — the start of your own portfolio. Ask any floristry related questions - How do you price flower arrangements? Where do you buy your flowers? Week 1: Bunches, Bouquets & Posies The backbone of floristry. Learn multiple construction methods you'll use again and again.Week 2: Blooming Bowls Explore the arrangements built on this classic construction. Learn the mechanics — foam, frogs, chicken wire — behind arrangements that last.Week 3: Wired and Glued for Beauty: flower crowns, headbands, corsages, and buttonholes — the fiddly little skills that set premium work apart.Week 4: Statement Vases: Explore sophisticated grouping techniques or classic styling, vase hacks that will help you arrange perfectly every time.Week 5: Wreaths: Master different techniques behind wreaths and garlands, a tradition stretching back to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Fresh foam sympathy wreaths, bound cypress festive wreaths, 100% biodagradable wreaths.Week 6: Elevate Your Table Designs: Statement centrepieces and display pieces for receptions, ceremonies, and events. From elongated bridal table arrangements to grand pedestal.What You'll Walk Away WithConfident, professional construction techniques and mechanics that are used on-the-job.An eye for selecting flowers based on seasonality, longevity, and impact.Skills suited to weddings, events, and everyday arrangements in the workplace.The start of a portfolio of your own workBook in for the whole 6 sessions and Receive The Business of Flowers Guide written by Cassy.Everyone who registers for thefull course receives a copy of The Business of Flowers — Cassy's companion guide to the industry side of floristry. It follows the same six-week structure as the course, so you can revisit what you covered in class, jot notes in the margins, and keep coming back to it long after the course ends. Each chapter goes beyond the hands-on techniques to cover the practical, real-world knowledge Cassy's picked up across nearly 30 years in the industry— from pricing your work and sourcing flowers, to running a business, to a resource list of trusted wholesalers and suppliers to get you started.It's the guide she wishes someone had handed her when she was starting out.When It RunsClasses are held every Tuesday (excluding public holidays). Each week's class stands on its own, so you can start any week that suits you. And even if you circle back to a week you've already done, it's never quite the same class twice — different flowers, different construction, new things to learn. Florists never stop learning. Start any time - Weeks run in rotationReady to Get Your Hands in the Blooms?Six weeks of practical, guided floristry — building real skills with a mentor who's spent a lifetime perfecting her craft and designing for saleable products.Please note: Flowers for Jane is located on a hobby farm so there are animals (and Roxy our Border Collie) on the property.

• All flowers, foliage, and sundries required to make an arrangement to take home each week.
• You'll use our class set of cutters, etc., however, if you choose to purchase new, you may.
• Coffee, tea, and refreshments provided.
• 10% off any purchases (giftware, cutters, more flowers, candles, etc.) during the event.

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