Flower Farmer to Florist – One Day Course
May 10 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Join Heart of BS13 at our charity’s sustainable flower farm for a hands-on day of flower farming and floristry!
This course is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to grow and arrange your own flowers, whether you’re just starting out, want to improve your skills or get a taste of a career in flower farming.
It will include two sessions:
1. Growing Seasonal Flowers
Sol, our Horticulture Programme Manager, will guide you through the essentials of growing flowers throughout the seasons.
You will learn:
- Planning Your Flower Beds: How to layout your beds for maximum productivity.
- Sowing & Transplanting: Best practices for seed sowing, pricking out, and transplanting.</
- Spacing & Care: How to space plants properly for healthy growth.
- Soil Health: How to improve and maintain healthy soil.
- Managing Weeds & Pests: Tips on identifying and controlling weeds and pests naturally.
- Biodiversity & Composting: Promoting biodiversity and how to compost to enrich your soil.
This session will include an introduction to our charity and social enterprise and tour of the flower farm.
2. Harvesting & Arranging Flowers
Clem, our Head Florist, will teach you how to care for the flowers you’ve grown, from cutting and conditioning to creating your own arrangements.
What You’ll Learn:
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- Harvesting & Conditioning: How to pick flowers at their best and keep them fresh.
- Professional Harvesting Tips: Do’s and don’ts for cutting stems, conditioning flowers and vase life top tips.
- Flower Arranging: Basics of colour palettes, composition, and design principles.
- Wrapping Like a Pro: How to wrap your bouquet with professional flair.
In this session, you will utilise your new cutting and conditioning knowledge to pick your own flowers for a flower arranging session.
You will take home:
- Seeds you’ve sown and plug plants to get you growing.
- Your flower arrangement
Please bring a packed lunch. Tea, coffee & cake will be provided throughout the day.
When: 10am – 3:30pm Saturday 10 May
Cost: £125
(We have limited £10 spaces available on each workshop for BS13 residents who are in receipt of means-tested benefits – if this applies to you please select this option below).
Where: Hartcliffe City Farm, Lampton Avenue, Hartcliffe, BS13 0QH
Parking: There is no parking on the farm. Please park considerately on the nearby streets. If you have access requirements, please email us at flowers@heartofbs13.org.uk or call Sol on 07762092648.
Book your tickets here.
For further information about this course, please contact flowers@heartofbs13.org.uk or call Sol on 07762092648.
Please note: we require a minimum number of 6 participants to run this course.
Private booking? We also run private and corporate workshops – please get in touch if you’d like to discuss this.
When you book on to a workshop with Heart of BS13, you are helping fund our charity’s work to tackle inequality and create green education and training opportunities in our South Bristol community – thank you! We look forward to welcoming you to the flower farm.
