Initial payment	Monthly amount	# of payments	Total cost
£35.00	£32.50	10	£360.00

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Professional Floristry - An Introduction

Start date:	Any
Duration:	Up to 18 months
Formal prerequisite:	None
Certificate awarded:	Yes
Fee:	£162.50

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The course provides the knowledge elements to create a modest floristry business: the way to handle customers, their orders, how to use colour in design, how to make up flowers and how to run the shop. Coupled with the essential hands-on experience gained at a working florist shop this should provide a fast track approach to enjoying a career in floristry.

Lesson 1	The Florist Shop - setting the scene; prices; staff duties and presentation.
Lesson 2	From the grower to the shop; stem types; special treatments; special needs.
Lesson 3	Introduction to learning the nature of the trade. Bouquets; hand tieds.
Lesson 4	Developing the basics. Costing a design. Shapes, styles, design and balance.
Lesson 5	Taking a funeral order. Funeral flowers. Wiring. Types of moss. Foliages.
Lesson 6	Special occasions: wedding anniversaries; birthdays; birth celebrations.
Lesson 7	Wedding flowers. Preparation and starting from scratch. Designs. Posies.
Lesson 8	'Silks' and 'drieds'. Dred grasses. Ribbons and bases. Spices, fruit and herb.
Lesson 9	Contracts and working outside the shop. Working from a brief. Fresh flowers.
Lesson 10	Continental influences. Preparing to enter a competition. Cascade/waterfall.

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Professional Floristry - An Introduction

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