Flower School Video Library

The Flower School Video Library is the world’s largest collection of online flower arrangement video demonstrations. Subjects range from flower care and handling, design basics and wedding flowers, to advanced design techniques and styles. This library is viewed by thousands of floral design professionals and students throughout the world every day. Produced exclusively by Floral Design Institute, the video clips in this library are free to all. Enjoy!

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An evergreen wreath enhanced with magnolia leaves and cryptomeria is decorated with pink cymbidium orchids, magnolia buds on branches, and pine cones.

Bespoke Styled Holiday Wreath

In this video clip Leanne creates a spectacular holiday wreath in the bespoke garden style. The design is loose, wild and filled with woodland treasures. Mixed evergreens, cryptomeria, magnolia leaves and sculptural branches create a dramatic base. The addition of elegant rust colored cymbidium orchid blossoms are the perfect enhancement for this dramatic design. Enjoy!

A centerpiece of five white pillar candles sitting at various heights in a bed of green trick dianthus, ruscus, white roses, hypericum berries, and baby's breath sits in a long woven basket.

Thanksgiving Centerpiece in White

Most Thanksgiving arrangements are created in the fire hues of orange, red and yellow. But, a different color palette can be wonderfully refreshing at the end of the autumn season. In this video Leanne creates a gorgeous pillar candle design using green foliages and white roses. Enjoy!

An Autumn floral centerpiece of sunflowers, celosia, leucadendron, Nandina leaves, chrysanthemums in the deep vibrant hues of the fall season, and shiny round apples in a  ceramic dish laid in a saucer.

Sunflowers and Apples Thanksgiving Centerpiece

A centerpiece filled with sunflowers and apples combined with fall flowers and foliages is the essence of the autumn season. In this how-to video Leanne demonstrates the mechanics and techniques for securing apples in a beautiful and long lasting Thanksgiving Centerpiece. Enjoy!

A round tin container holds an overflowing arrangement of cottage yarrow, Asclepias, pomegranates, decorative blackberries, spray roses, cockscomb Celosia, chocolate phlox, bunny tail, and orchids draping over the sides.

Dramatic Thanksgiving Centerpiece

The Thanksgiving holiday is a celebration of friends, family and traditions. And, while we love traditional floral centerpieces, sometimes we want something different. In this video clip Leanne creates a contemporary round centerpiece with gorgeous flowers from Florabundance.com. You will love this stunning mixture of traditional autumn flowers combined with orchids, blackberries and pomegranates. Enjoy!

Seemingly bursting out of a large pumpkin are fresh fall flowers like celosia, pincushion protea, hypericum, leucadendron, foliages, and colorful autumn leaves. A faux spider and webs complete the design.

Halloween Pumpkin Tricks

One simply cannot decorate for the autumn season without pumpkins. Pumpkins can be filled with flowers, placed in floral arrangements or decked with garlands of flowers. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne shows how to take any autumn arrangement and turn it into a frightful Halloween arrangement. Enjoy!

Seemingly bursting out of a large pumpkin are fresh fall flowers like celosia, pincushion protea, hypericum, leucadendron, foliages, and colorful autumn leaves. A bow is tied with brown ribbon on the pumpkin's stem.

Autumn Floral Pumpkin

A large pumpkin combined with fresh fall flowers, foliages, and colorful autumn leaves makes a beautiful, grand centerpiece. In this how-to demonstration Leanne shares the techniques for creating a unique floral pumpkin design, perfect for autumn entertaining. Enjoy!

Coral calla lilies and curly willow swirl and wrap around their base, which also holds hypericum berries, textural celosia, and lotus pods.

Autumn Winds Centerpiece

The seasons are changing, leaves are falling and the winds are blowing. Dried grasses and branches tumble and wind around each other. This was the inspiration for this contemporary floral design. Leanne shares the techniques for winding callas in this magnificent centerpiece. Enjoy!

A lavish arrangement in Flemish style uses an oval design created from Kangaroo paw, chocolate phlox, roses, pomegranates, James story orchids, millet, amaranthus, agonis, scabiosa pods, montbretia pods, bittersweet, and helecho fern in a cast iron urn.

Classic Flemish Floral Design

The inspiration for this video clip was a trip to the Portland Art Museum to view an exhibition of Old Masters paintings. While many of these paintings were created centuries ago, the style is still popular and is currently on-trend. You will love Leanne’s discussion of Flemish style as she creates an opulent floral arrangement using flowers and foliages from Florabundance.com. Enjoy!

A bouquet of light pink peonies, hot pink hydrangea, and deep red roses with ruscus, fatsia, and lily grass, and accessorized with curly willow.

Autumn Peony Bouquet

It does seem odd to mention autumn, peonies and pink in the same sentence. But thanks to the commercial production of flowers in Alaska, peonies are readily available during the autumn season. In this video clip Leanne discusses and demonstrates how to introduce black to a pink monochromatic color harmony to create a shade that moves pink into an autumn color palette. Leanne’s curly willow armature technique creates a gorgeous autumn arrangement. Enjoy!

A floral wreath, in soft pinks and blues, filled with hydrangea blossoms, hybrid roses and spray roses. Foliage of Israeli Ruscus and Spring Rye fill out the wreath with sections wrapped in small bundles of Beargrass.

Opulent Sympathy Wreath

Proficiency in creating sympathy designs is critical for a successful floral designer. In this video clip Leanne creates a beautiful large wreath which could be placed on an easel stand or laid flat at a graveside. The wreath is designed on a 15 inch floral foam wreath, based with foliages and filled with hydrangea blossoms, hybrid roses and spray roses. The focus is on good mechanics and technique, assuring a long lasting and stable sympathy design. Enjoy!

A textural bouquet of spray roses, chocolate brown lisianthus, Scabiosa pods, Parvifolia eucalyptus, the blushing bride protea, sage, ranunculus, wine-colored Scabiosa , rice flower, and hellebores.

Fall Bridal Bouquet

In this video clip Leanne revisits the classic hand-tied bridal bouquet, updated with a loose, casual contemporary look that is so popular with todays brides. Leanne carefully demonstrates the step-by-step techniques as she creates a gorgeous, highly textural bouquet with dramatic fall flowers from Florabundance.com and finished with an elegant collar of ruched ribbon. Enjoy!

A vintage floral design of Amnesia Rose, silvered foliages, Queen Anne’s Lace in soft pink and burgundy, aubergine Scabiosa and angel wing begonia situated in a mercury glass compote.

Wedding Compote Centerpiece

On trend for wedding receptions is a vintage styled centerpiece crafted in a compote vessel. In this how-to video Leanne gathers a luscious selection of flowers and foliages beginning with the Amnesia Rose, silvered foliages, Queen Anne’s Lace in soft pink and burgundy. Egg plant colored Scabiosa and angel wing begonia finishes the luxurious look of this vintage design. Enjoy!

A bouquet of roses, tansy, echinops, Queen Anne's Lace, and ruscus is framed by a collar of midelino triangles rests in a white vase decorated with retro 6-petal flowers in colorful metallics.

Armature Collared Vase

For floral designers inspiration comes from many origins. The triadic color harmony found on a simple vase was the inspiration for the design in this how-to video. Leanne explains the triadic color harmony as she demonstrates the techniques used for crafting a collared armature and a hand-tied bouquet. The result: a dramatic, custom floral design. Enjoy!

A full, lush bouquet of tangerine and coral garden roses, bright yellow tansy, Oregonia, and Aucuba, gets a wild, foraged look from the additions of Queen Anne's lace, fennel, camellia leaves, semi-dried grasses, maple, and ivy and rests in a bubble bowl.

Summer Wildflower Bouquet

If you love flowers you must relish the summer season. Flower Shops, Farmer’s Markets, Your Garden plus the Fields and Forest are filled with beautiful flowers. Yes, some might call these flowers weeds, but a weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne mixes commercially grown flowers, garden flowers and “weeds” to create a spectacular vase bouquet using the French Weave technique. Enjoy!

A dramatic candelabra centerpiece enveloped in Garden Roses, Dahlias, Cockscomb, and Gerbera Daisies in a vibrant polychromatic color palette of red, yellow, orange, pink, and purple, plus foliages of ruscus, Oregonia, and Salal.

Candelabra Wedding Centerpiece

A Candelabra adorned with foliages and flowers can be a most dramatic Wedding Centerpiece. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne teaches the mechanics and techniques for faultless construction as she creates a stunning centerpiece using the Oasis Floral Products Netted Garland. The finished candelabra wedding centerpiece filled with Garden Roses, Dahlias, Cockscomb, and Gerbera Daisies is absolutely stunning. Enjoy!

A wrist wearing a corsage starring white and yellow Phalaenopsis orchids with Oregonia, camilla, and juniper, bows of yellow ribbon, and diamante pins adding sparkle.

Wedding Wrist Corsage

The wrist corsage is the current on-trend body flower for weddings. The fresh flower wrist corsage is comfortable to wear and allows for more freedom of movement. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne demonstrates a beautiful easy to create wrist corsage using a Slap Bracelet and Floral Adhesive from the Oasis Floral Products company. You will love the techniques demonstrated in this video. Enjoy!

An eclectic design combining fabulous dahlias and garden roses plus a surprising addition of oncidium orchids, with foliages of aucuba, camellia, and fatsia, arranged in Western Line Style inside a bronze compote vessel and accessorized with curly willow.

Colorful Dahlia Centerpiece

In this video clip Leanne revisits the elements and principles of floral design as she creates a dramatic and eclectic design with a focus on the beautiful Dahlia. As Leanne demonstrates the classic Western Line Style of design he discuses how to “break-the-rules” and mix garden flowers with exotic orchids. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement in a multicolor striped base uses an armature of triangles fashioned from rattan midollino sticks and showcases draping oncidium orchids along with dahlias, cockscomb, and phalaenopsis orchids.

Dramatic Armature Design

The design armature is a wonderful mechanic for supporting blossoms in a floral arrangement. While most armatures are hidden within the design, an artistic armature can be created to be the prominent feature of a contemporary floral design. In this video clip Leanne uses natural rattan midollino sticks to create a dramatic armature of triangle shapes as she creates a beautiful contemporary floral design. Enjoy!

A section of a garland made from camellia, juniper, Oregonia, and curly willow to create a dynamic line, adorned with garden roses in an apricot hue.

Wedding Table Garland

A custom made garland filled with several exciting foliages and embellished with fresh garden roses is one of the most dramatic, cost-effective, easy-to-create and on-trend centerpieces for a wedding reception. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates how to create a gorgeous summer wedding garland as she shares the techniques for mixing flowers and foliages. Enjoy!

A tall floral centerpiece has elegant draping phalaenopsis orchids, soft pink garden roses, delicate mint and oregano, yarrow, hot pink freesia, towering veronica, lamb's ear, and lily grass in an elevated glass vase.

Tall Wedding Reception Centerpiece

More and more we see Brides choosing an eclectic mixture of flowers, foliages and herbs for their weddings. Classic beauties like Phalaenopsis Orchids combined with herbs and roses from a home garden. In this video clip Leanne shares the alternative mechanics for creating tall reception wedding centerpieces using challenging blossoms and short stems. Enjoy!