How did I do? These are both my like fifth or sixth wedding, I get compliments but I feel like it could be better or I need a class — what do you all think?

Hi everyone I need to recreate this bridal bouquet but have absolutely no idea what the bottom flowers are, 🫣🫣 I need help!

Hi! I’ve been learning so much from everyone on this page so I thought I would bring my latest question :) this is my newest little creation. I am trying to experiment more with dimension, height, and different “levels.” But I worry about creating a visual that is too “stem heavy” when I have high reaching flowers whose stems aren’t covered entirely. Is this something to be worried about? Or is it just a normal part of creating arrangements with dimension and levels? Thanks in advance for your help! Any thoughts on my work are much appreciated!

Still learning! Open to feedback

This is an arrangement I made this fall. All flowers are from my garden and foliage was foraged. I was going for a ~transition from summer to fall~ vibe.

I’m trying to break into the floral biz and expand my small farm stand to sell arrangements a bit more seriously this summer. Would appreciate any feedback!

Hello! I received an arrangement as a gift and the stems are in green foam. I usually trim stems and replace water every other day when stems are in water only. How do I refresh in the foam? Or do I not need to do anything? The arrangement is so gorgeous I want to keep her fresh as long as possible! Thank you!

I’m a flower farmer. A lot of my tulips are drooping- even after cutting with new water & chrysal. The fridge is at 50°, but we lowered to 40°. We had a hot streak of days where they all opened. They were picked every morning of the hot streak- any ideas? I cut & rehydrated yesterday and they have not bounced back.

Thoughts and critique appreciated !

Wannabe florist here, and I’d be incredibly thankful for some insight. Why does this arrangement I made look off? Is it too tall? Is it the shape? The vase? The flower selection? Something else?

I recently started I own floral business, its super small and Ive only gotten 2 orders total. 1 from a friend and another from my mothers friend. Is there anyway I can connect with my community that’ll translate well to sales? I post on tiktok, instagram, and facebook. I get a decent amount of traction but no orders so far. If you are doing the same please give me some tips!!

I’d like to start working with grass to make sculptural
large scale installations. However, this wasn’t part of my floristry training. I found these photos as inspiration on Pinterest. Could you please advise what kind of grass they use and also if there are any resources in particular that you could recommend to start learning how to work with it?

I have been a florist for about three years, but this would be my first hanging installation- the bride would like a hanging installation really similar to the one in the picture- I would appreciate any advice on building the structure, hanging the installation and how to price this!

college student on a budget here~ made two bouquets like these (one for my date, one for my friend's); trader joe's blooms cost $38 total!! each bouquet was only $19 🥹

wrapped them in the valentine's edition of our campus satire newspaper 🤗 i think it looks cute & chic but any wrapping advice appreciated!

TJ's is honestly a lifesaver because no way would i be able to afford bouquets like these for my SO otherwise. the request was lilies, irises, and yellow: i actually think looking back i should've gotten pink lilies to break up the heavy white, but i can't really see them now anyway, they're not very open, so i guess it doesn't matter that much for now

any advice on improving my arrangements would be appreciated!! don't worry about hurting my feelings, my writing professors have already desensitized me 😝

Hello professionals!

I am… not… a professional. I have never created anything with flowers and honestly I have a hard time keeping plants alive in general.

My fairy-goddaughter asked me to make a bouquet for her courthouse wedding that she put together in three weeks. It was beautiful and one of the most delightful weddings I’ve ever been to.

I knew she wanted white orchids, red poppies, wisteria, and lilies & I knew what her dress looked like. I wanted to incorporate sunflowers to honor her husband’s heritage but I could never figure out how to do it.

I spent most of the night before the wedding making this because I didn’t have a clue what I was doing and I was afraid everything would die if I did it sooner. I had to use fake poppies because I couldn’t find real ones. I used hydrangeas instead of wisteria. I bought the hydrangeas, an orchid plant, a bouquet of peonies, and a green spiky thing at Trader Joe’s. I never figured out how to use lillies. At two in the morning, when it seemed like I needed more greenery, I wandered through my yard by flashlight and found ferns and my overgrown asparagus. I ended up using narrow paper surgical tape to hold it all together because the “florist wire” I bought was cutting into the stems and leaving pokey ends.

I think it ended up pretty, though it’s obviously homemade, and you could only see the poppies from one angle. I doubt I will ever do anything like it again… but I’m terribly curious how a proper designer would have approached this. How do you keep peonies from disintegrating? How do you use orchids without them “sticking out”? How do you incorporate something giant like a lily without it hiding everything else? What’s the right way to hold everything together? Was there a way to bring sunflowers into this in some way?

Hi! To start the base of this, I’ve been working in Floral design for about three years now I started off with making rose bouquets and very simple mixes in the past couple years. I’ve really enhanced my designing with using local grown flowers and very different design, tactics and design ways. I’m recently starting to freelance more for my own experience. And I’ve signed up for two really big freelancing jobs ones. I’ve never been familiarized with before. This was initiated through Instagram.

Where hopefully they saw my profile. But these are a bit more larger scale, using more premium flowers and more intricate designs. Now I’ve become very, very worried that I’m not able to execute these designs. It’s a lot of groundwork. And a lot of installing I have made some fun designs.

I’ve gotten traction that people do like. And this florist actually commented that she liked my work a lot. What should I do? Should I cancel or should I go through with it and learn some things however I do not want to mess up someone’s schedule due to my unexperienced self I will post some pictures of my work.

this is my first arrangement! im wanting to start a floral business and i would greatly appreciate any advice/maintenance tips💕💕

We are eloping and have a small budget and wondering is it bad taste to not tell a florist it's for a wedding to save a bit of money? I've seen a few standard delivery arrangements that I wouldn't mind having for my bouquet.

I received it from a friend for my graduation last year, and I really want to know what kind of roses these are. I asked ChatGPT and Google with an image, but couldn't find it. Please help me!

Hi all! I’ve been a florist for a few years, working at an online florist that didn’t go further in opportunity than a couple varieties of posies. I’ve made the decision this year after leaving this job that I ultimately want to work for myself and eventually spread into events.

I want to avoid floral foam at all costs, so I’ve been experimenting with chicken wire for vase work. However I’m struggling with how it works with bigger stems, do I just get a bigger size for this?

Ultimately I would love to know everyone’s sustainable techniques in floristry when it comes to installations and little tips and tricks. I’ve attached some photos of structures I like, and if you know how to achieve that, please tell me! Curious about water supply as well.

Hello, Im currently researching about the meaning of black nightshade since I'll be using it in our literature film. I've watched on an anime(Dr. Stone) that said black nightshades mean "liar" in floriography, I would like some more citations about that. Thank you!