The last week of the four weeks floristry course concentrates on finding your own style as a florist, understanding business concepts and marketing in the floristry industry. A major focus at BFS is that students find their own voice and style, because learning floral techniques are the easy part, but finding your own design signature takes a while and a lot of trials and errors. In the last week the students create their final floral design, which they have to present in fro

At the Berlin Flower School we end the event week with an actual event. We created a whole scenery for "Marie Antoinette tea party" using old style garden flowers, french lilies, dahlias, spray roses, astilbe and much more. Cakes and candles in the right color theme were also decorated.

For events you need statement pieces, floral bouquets or installations that can be seen from far away. They are simply there to impress.Those floral designs need to be created very often in the location, because they are simply to heavy to move or to fragile. On day three of the event week we created one of these statement pieces. The focus also was to use contrasting colors in order to make a bold statement with the bright fuchsia and light green.

Most corporate events have a theme or color theme as a starting point. Very often it is expected of florist to come up with some exciting floral designs to underline the theme. seasonal themes are very often used for summer, autumn or christmas parties. This years October course made a special effort to create a pumpkin feast. We used different types of dahlias, chrysanthemum roses, olive, dyed gras etc.

The event week is a very interesting week for florists who want to do large floral installations. Here you also learn that some floral designs are simply too large to work on your own. Next to techniques, your learn about color themes opposing contrasting color concepts and motto themes in event flowers. On day two we created a large two meter wide exotic floral wall as an example for a wonderful cocktail event party or caribbean night party and matching corporate event bouqu

In week three we are concentrating on big lobby bouquet, corporate event flowers, hanging installations and floral walls. This was day one designing different setup for a lobby entrance and the reception area. Working with bamboo and wood.