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 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!

A lively centerpiece in oval design of mini hydrangea, roses in shades of pink, lisianthus, phlox, micro gerbera daisies, and Italian ruscus.

Elegant Wedding Centerpiece

While there are many different design styles of wedding centerpieces, the classic elegance of traditional styling is often the best choice. In this how-to design video Leanne demonstrates a classic oval design style as she creates a gorgeous summer flowers wedding centerpiece. You will love the design techniques and the care & handling procedures that Leanne discusses in this video. Enjoy!

A sweeping arrangement of vibrant summertime flowers like nadia, freesia, ranunculus, Salvia, and Toulouse Lautrec garden roses complimented by blue green foliages like lamb's ear and eucalyptus.

Summer Flowers

Summer has arrived and with summer comes a brief season of gorgeous garden flowers. In this video clip Leanne creates a beautiful vase arrangement using the French weave technique. The color harmony is a bold split compliment softened with blue green foliages. This design style is one that you will want to create often this summer. Enjoy!

A trio of boutonnieres: one with a soft pink camellia against green trick dianthus with a spiral of silver wire, another with a small succulent and a jewel, the third with more green trick dianthus and a micro gerbera.

Easiest Wedding Boutonniere Ever

As the wedding season approaches it’s time to take a look at a fresh approach to wedding boutonnieres. In this video clip Leanne shares new mechanics for creating fast and easy updated boutonnieres with a lot of style and a lot of fun. You are going to love this time saving technique as your prepare this season’s wedding flowers. Enjoy!

An elegant bridal bouquet using classic garden roses combined with fragrant gardenias, stephanotis and hypericum berries.

Fragrant Bridal Bouquet

Fragrance can be a very important element of floral design. When creating bridal bouquets fragrance can be essential. In this video how-to Leanne creates an elegant bridal bouquet in a straight handled bouquet holder using classic garden roses combined with fragrant gardenias and stephanotis. You will love the wealth of techniques shared in this demonstration. Enjoy!

A blue prize ribbon sits between a duo of Western Line Styled Arrangements featuring striking red garden roses against the greens of grasses, leaf-laden branches, and ivy in matching blue urns.

Flowers for Summer Celebrations

Summer has arrived and Leanne believes that all summer holidays and celebrations should always include flowers. Leanne’s favorite summer flower, Garden Roses of course. In this video how-to Leanne demonstrates how to create a duo of Western Line Styled Arrangements perfect for framing a summer picnic buffet or Mom’s blue ribbon winning apple pie. Enjoy!

A dramatic vertical arrangement in bright yellow featuring bearded iris, roses and craspedia with lily grass, galax, and Italian ruscus foliages sitting in a bamboo container.

Elegant Bearded Iris

A favorite early summer flower is the Bearded Iris. The season is short, but the elegant beauty of this blossom is not to be missed. In this video how-to demonstration Leanne creates an Asian inspired bamboo container then designs a dramatic vertical arrangement of Bearded Iris, Roses and Craspedia. Enjoy!

A formal line floral design starring dramatic birds of paradise along with exotic pincushion protea, red roses, hypericum berries, arced lily grass, and fatsia leaves positioned in a shallow purply tray.

Formal Linear Floral Design

Participating in a floral design competition is something that Leanne recommends to all students and graduates. A competition or evaluation session forces a designer to stretch and grow beyond their comfort level. In this video clip Leanne shares tips for designing for completion as she creates a dramatic arrangement in the formal linear design style. Enjoy!

A bespoke garden style centerpiece featuring flowering cherry blossom branches, Love Lies Bleeding, lilacs, poppies, lisianthus, salal, fatsia, and dusty miller.

Bespoke Garden Styled Lilac Centerpiece

Many of our favorite spring and early summer flowers like Lilacs, Love-Lies-Bleeding and Poppies require a large reservoir of water that is easy to absorb making the classic mechanic of a floral netting armature perfect showcasing these blossoms. In this video clip Leanne creates a fabulous Mother’s Day Centerpiece as she shares the techniques for creating a Bespoke Garden Styled Lilac Centerpiece. Enjoy!

Classic Hand-Tied Garden Rose Bridal Bouquet

Classic Hand-Tied Garden Rose Bridal Bouquet

The classic hand-tied bouquet style is one of the finest ways to showcase beautiful garden roses. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates the technique for creating a classic hand-tied bouquet. The technique does require practice. Leanne recommends that you practice with older flowers, creating a bouquet, then taking it apart and creating another bouquet, over and over, until you master the technique. Then, reward yourself with a gorgeous personal bouquet using flowers from GardenRosesDirect.com. Enjoy!

A bouquet of garden roses in soft peaches and pale pinks accompanied by Italian ruscus.

Garden Rose Bridal Bouquet

Luscious Garden Roses are the rose of choice for bridal bouquets and with quality flowers and supplies is is very easy to create dramatic bouquets. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates the techniques for creating a bridal bouquet using a round Oasis European holder, a silver wire armature and fabulous roses from GardenRosesDirect.com. Enjoy!

Garden roses in soft peaches and pale pinks.

Garden Roses Care & Handling

Garden Roses are on trend and in demand for weddings, events and everyday bouquets. And, when you see some of the new varieties it’s easy to see why; large heads, high petal counts, fabulous colors and wonderful fragrance. But, special care and handling is required for these magnificent blossoms. In this video clip Leanne shares tips for the care & handing of garden roses from GardenRosesDirect.com. Enjoy!

A dramatic centerpiece combines spring tulips and ranunculus, "Free Spirit" garden roses and exotic pincushion protea, ruscus, monsterra and aspidistra leaves, leather fern, finished with a bird’s nest filled with quail eggs.

Easy Easter Centerpiece

Spring is filled with so many wonderful flowers and colors. In this video clip Leanne shrugs off the status quo as she combines spring Tulips and Ranunculus, Garden Roses and exotic Pincushion Protea in a dramatic centerpiece. The design features amazing Garden Roses named “Free Spirit” from GardenRosesDirect.com. Leanne finishes the design with a lovely bird’s nest filled with quail eggs. You are going to love this design. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement in a color palette of soft pinks features tulips, sweet pea, snowdrops, hyacinth, jasmine vine, dusty miller, garden roses, and curly willow.

An Organic Design of Spring Flowers

Spring has arrived and the markets are filled with colorful and fragrant spring flowers. In this how-to video Leanne takes an organic approach to arranging flowers using a ball of curly willow branches in a clear vase to create an armature for supporting the delicate stems and a design that appears to be the roots of the flowers. This is a design that you will want to create over and over again during the spring season. Enjoy!

A hand-tied bouquet of red roses, billy balls, and eryngium is gently muted by the grays of accompanying dusty miller, Brunia, and succulent and sits in a large vase.

Triadic Hand-Tied Bouquet

Hand-Tied bouquets continue to grow in popularity. With practice they are easy to make and can be simply dropped into a water filled container to complete a beautiful arrangement. In this video clip Leanne creates a hand-tied bouquet in a Triadic color harmony. The bold colors of red, yellow and blue can overwhelm the bouquet so Leanne softens the mix with the grays of Dusty Miller and Brunia. The addition of a wired succulent finishes the design. Enjoy!

A floral arrangement of delphinium, eryngium, orange ranunculus, billy balls, and blooming branches of young dogwood flowers next to a small orange lantern holding a lit tea candle.

Springtime Garden

In this video clip Leanne captures the transition of winter into spring. Using the moody winter blues of Delphinium brightened with the spring colors of Ranunculus and Billy Balls she creates a parallel styled arrangement in a split compliment color harmony. The addition of a blooming Dogwood branch completes this beautiful design. Enjoy!

A floral centerpiece in a triadic color harmony using green hydrangea, ranunculus, pin cushion protea, lisianthus and kale.

Hydrangea Centerpiece

Hydrangea are such fabulous blossoms, big, bold and dramatic. And, they can be very long lasting, if you know how to take care of them. In this video clip Leanne shares the techniques for keeping Hydrangea blossoms beautiful for as long as possible and she creates a lovely centerpiece in a triadic color harmony using green hydrangea, ranunculus, pin cushion protea, lisianthus and kale. Enjoy!