Looking for that creative spark? Are you keen to learn how to create spectacular floral arrangements for your work, your family, and your own personal space? Look no further: we have a wonderful course right here in Toowoomba, to teach you some basic skills in floristry.
About Our Lessons
Our florist lessons are designed as an affordable way for you to learn some great techniques, here in Toowoomba. A similar course can cost thousands of dollars, and may involve travelling out of town. These florist lessons are a great way to test if you want to study floristry seriously and will give you a great advantage if you decide to pursue further study.
Who are our ten lesson courses suitable for?
They are suitable for anyone who loves nature, flowers and creating. You do not have to have any previous experience to commence your florist lessons: you just have to want to learn and we will teach you. If you do have some experience, we are happy to share our professional tips.
You will receive a certificate of competency for each module of the florist lessons that you complete. This certificate can be added to your resume as an additional skill which is of benefit across a broad number of industries. In Toowoomba, and anywhere else you may choose to find employment; flowers and floral arrangement play a huge role in so many professional environments.
In the hospitality industry it would be fabulous to have the ability to arrange display and care for flowers, and our Toowoomba florist lessons can give you these wonderful skills. In the small business areas of fruit shops, delicatessens, organic food shops and so on, having experience handling flowers would be a great benefit.
Aged care, hospitals and hospices all have flowers, and the added skills you will gain from these florist lessons will give you the edge in decorating your workplace. In churches, schools and the funeral industry, florist skills will help you in many ways.
Furthermore, in most retail areas where flower displays, and product displays and prominent features, the added knowledge the florist lessons give you will be truly beneficial. The nursery industry is closely related to the flower industry and often there is a crossover of skills.
For your own personal pleasure flowers:
Flowers lift the spirits and working with them is beneficial for depression and anxiety.
You can do family events, such as weddings and
other family celebrations. We even have suggestions of simple plants you can
grow to make it economical for you to make your own floral arrangements.
We love what we do, and we love to share our
love and knowledge so that more people get to enjoy flowers and working with
them.
To find out more about these exciting and uplifting lessons, please find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/westridgeflorist/
Send us a message, give us a call on (07) 4687
6259, or pop into our store at Westridge Shopping Centre. We look forward to meeting you and showing
the creative world of floristry.
Lesson One
- Learn to make a simple arrangement in oasis
- Learn to strauss a bouquet of flowers and gift wrapped.
- How to make a professional bow to add to arrangement and bouquet.
- Wiring techniques and you get to make a flower crown to take home. (babys breath and gum)
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Two
- Refresh a strauss bouquet and arrangement
- Design and make a modern arrangement.
- Learn how Balance and Space apply to floristry.
- Wire a corsage and buttonhole to take home.
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Three
- Refresh strauss bouquet and arrangement.
- Do a line arrangement.
- Discuss height width and depth and how it applies to floristry.
- Learn to wire flowers for a hair comb to wear home.
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Four
- Refresh strauss bouquet and arrangement
- Learn how to construct a tropical arrangement.
- Learn about pattern and placement of flowers
- Wire different flower heads, which you may take home.
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Five
- At this stage we shall apply the skills you have practiced and do a low table arrangement. This is a more complex design.
- We shall then do another flower crown but will add some more elements to it. This will be suitable for a wedding, baby shoot or christening.
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Six
- Make a native arrangement
- Learn about texture, soft, shiny, fury, thin, and different shapes
- How to add different elements, sticks, fruit, feathers, shells, nuts, cones, seed pods, dodda vine sphagnum moss etc.
- Make a spear grass ladder, spear grass loops etc
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Seven
- Assemble a wired cake topper using fern, spray roses, greenery, ribbon and filler flower to keep and take home.
- Learn about the scale and proportion of arrangements, bouquets, oasis cages and vases.
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Eight
- Make a basket arrangement.
- Assemble a gift wrapped single flower to take home.
- Learn how to store flowers correctly. How to choose the best and freshest blooms
- You also get a certificate of completion, which you may add to your resume.
Lesson Nine
- How to gift wrap single flowers (one to take home )
- Make a funeral sheaf.
- Discuss how to use the techniques you have learnt to make a casket spray.
- Learn how to take awesome photos of flowers on your phone.
- Learn how to use the colour wheel when designing with flowers
- Practice bow making and learn some different techniques
Lesson Ten
- Make a Christmas arrangement and how to add different elements baubles etc.. We shall then make a Christmas halo for you to gift or wear.
- And as this is the last of the ten week course you may ask to refresh and practice any of the techniques you have learnt
