Flower Farmer to Florist - One Day Course

Join us for a hands on day growing and arranging your own cut flowers, at our charity's sustainable flower farm in South Bristol. 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. You will learn: • 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 bouquet of flowers Please bring a packed lunch. Tea, coffee & cake will be provided throughout the day. When: 10am – 3:30pm Saturday 22 May 2027 Cost: £140 (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: Heart of BS13 Flower Farm, 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 [email protected] or call Sol on 07762 092648. For further information about this course, please contact [email protected] or call Sol on 07762 092648. 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.