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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A modern garden style bridal bouquet of diverse materials like hydrangea, garden roses, kale, eryngium, hyacinth, protea, lisianthus, stock, tulips, and foliage of gilded white eucalyptus, draping seeded eucalyptus, and dusty miller.

Modern Garden Style Bridal Bouquet

The garden style bridal bouquet has been popular for many years now. However, the style is evolving. It still has that “just gathered from the garden” look but now the bouquet is larger, more loosely constructed with draping foliage and a wider and more exotic range of flowers.

Amy Osaba stands holding a bouquet of foraged flowers and foliage. Amy is wearing a blue dress with thin red windowpane plaid detail.

An Interview with Amy Osaba

Recently Leanne attended the Inspirational Design Days 2015 sponsored by Florabundance.com. One of the featured presenters was the fabulously popular Amy Osaba from Atlanta, Georgia. Leanne discusses with Amy her design style and passion for flowers and weddings. Enjoy

A dramatic vase of three kinds of roses in colors of red, fuchsia, and pink and white bi-color decorated with dainty wax flowers and foliage of honey bracelet, ruscus, and plumosa.

Valentine's Day Roses

Successful floral designers know that trying to compete by price is a fool’s game. Instead they use their creativity to design beautiful alternative designs that consumers absolutely love. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates the creation of a dramatic vase of roses with three different varieties of roses. Enjoy!

A wedding scepter holding a large composite gardenia bloom is embellished with two diamante pins in the center, bringing sparkle to the bloom. The base armature is covered in moss and lichen.

Gardenia Wedding Scepter

The fragrant, elegant Gardenia endures in popularity decade after decade. In this video clip Leanne uses an opulent composite Gardenia to create a woodlands styled scepter perfect for a wedding, or prom. With this scepter in hand, you will feel like royalty, Enjoy!

An interesting vertical arrangement of tall purple liatrus, ruscus, lily grass, draped plumosa, bromeliad, Tillandsia, Brunia, hanging raspberry-colored amaranthus and matching roses.

Contemporary Tropical Design

When creating contemporary floral designs, tropical foliage is a perfect fit. In this video clip Leanne shares the techniques for creating dramatic vertical contemporary design as she demonstrates the use of tropical foliage and plants. Enjoy!

A ceramic basket holds a delightful butter palette arrangement of Beatrice garden roses, teak carnations, paperwhite, brasilia, spray roses, and flannel flowers.

Winter Warmth

Butter colored Garden Roses, Paperwhite-Narcissus, designer Carnations, Spray Roses and textural Flannel Flowers; these on trend blossoms and colors for 2015 combine to make a perfect “warm” centerpiece for a cold winter’s day. Enjoy!

Bold red poinsettia blooms are accompanied by holly bundles, red carnations. and red twig dogwood against foliage of evergreen pine, cedar, and noble fir. Birch bark conceals the container and sits in a bed of sphagnum moss in a clay saucer.

Christmas Woodlands Centerpiece

Did you know that you can use poinsettia blossoms as a cut flower? In this video clip Leanne shares the technique for creating an arrangement using poinsettia blossoms as she creates a dramatic Christmas Woodlands Design perfect for the holidays. Enjoy!

A holiday wreath enhanced with noble, cedar, and pine greens along with red twig dogwood branches, small pine cones, and pale peach rose blooms is adorned with a nest holding sphagnum moss and sweet gum pods.

Nested Christmas Wreath

A beautiful holiday wreath on the front door beautifully announces to every visitor that the holidays have arrived. In this video clip Leanne creates an innovative woodland-themed wreath with a special message. Drawing on the old German legend that states that if you find a bird’s nest in your Christmas tree, the coming year will be filled with good health and happiness. Enjoy!

A variety of small chrysanthemum blooms peak out of a low, shallow rectangular container, their shades of yellow, deep red, and bi-color creating depth and texture. River rocks and sweet gum pods lay sparingly in and around the container.

A Family Thanksgiving Centerpiece

The Thanksgiving holiday is a celebration of family and friends. In this video clip Leanne shares the joy of involving everyone, especially the children, in creating floral designs. She demonstrates how to create a dramatic floral centerpiece that is both beautiful and easy to create. Enjoy!

Galax leaves are fashioned into rosettes and painted in gold and silver metallics, then formed together into a festive wreath and accented with matching metallic ball ornaments nestled between the rosettes.

Gilded Rosette Wreath

Rich and luxurious, metallic gold and silver are on trend for this holiday season. In this video clip Leanne demonstrates how to create Galax leaf rosettes. She then gilds the rosettes and fashions a dramatic rosette wreath. Enjoy!

Branches of red twig dogwood stand upright, accompanied by yellow dancing lady orchids, in a bed of sphagnum moss and low autumn colored chrysanthemums, all surrounded by a wreath of pinecones.

A Seasonal Centerpiece

Late autumn is a challenging time for floral designers. The seasons and holidays change without clear distinction. Autumn, Halloween, Winter, and Christmas seemingly blend together. In this video clip Leanne creates a dramatic centerpiece that transcends the seasons. Enjoy!

A brooch fashioned of curled copper aluminum wire supporting three red and yellow bi-color daisy mum blooms is fastened to a lacy white shirt.

Wear Flowers and Sell More Flowers

As professional florists enter the holiday sales season it is important to remember that the best way to bring awareness to flowers is to wear flowers. In this video clip Leanne shares ideas for promoting flower sales as she demonstrates autumn flowers to wear designs.

Autumn Candlelight

Autumn Candlelight

Candlestick centerpieces are an elegant touch for an autumn dinner party. In this video Leanne demonstrates the techniques for creating these beautiful designs and we make it easy for you by providing a kit with everything you need to create two candlestick centerpieces. All you have to do is add the flowers and your own creativity.

A trio of arrangements, one in a large bubble bowl and two in smaller hurricane vessels, featuring dahlias, marigolds, mini sunflowers, roses, and solidaster in whimsical oranges and yellows with little black bats that appear to be hovering above.

Halloween Party Floral Design

Halloween has grown into a fabulous floral holiday, especially flowers for Halloween parties. In this video Leanne demonstrates how to create both festive and haunting Halloween designs as she presents the FDI Halloween Party Design Kit. Enjoy!

An arrangement of Douglas fir, flocked branches, light purple carnations, crystals, and a glittery snow ball.

Christmas Trends

At Floral Design Institute we have identified four key trends for the upcoming Christmas Season; Sparkling Crystal, Classic Holiday, Champagne Glow and Woodlands Natural. In this video Leanne previews the trends. To see all four trends in complete detail, join the Flower Lover’s Club

Coral dahlia buds and blooms delight in this arrangement, complimented by a burst of grains and several silk autumn leaves in a clear glass container holding an armature fashioned from bare kiwi branches.

Autumn Coral

The hottest “surprise” color trend for the summer of 2014 has been the hue of coral. Summer may be ending, but this popularity of this fabulous color will definitely continue. In this video clip Leanne creates a beautiful simple design using coral-hued dahlias, kiwi vine and autumn leaves. Enjoy!

A gorgeous, full arrangement of green and soft blue hydrangea, vibrant purple orchids, purple adjuratum, moon shade mini carnations, lysianthus, and bursts of tilancia.

Autumn Radiance

When you envision autumn floral designs the fire colors of red, yellow and orange come to mind. But, you can create and autumn design with alternate colors. In this video clip Leanne creates a dramatic autumn design with colors based on the Pantone color of the year, Radiant Orchid. Enjoy!

A willow basket is adorned with bare grapevine and holds nine mini calla lilies of vibrant yellow, draped over the side of the basket, and a sphere of matching yellow mini chrysanthemums.

Ninth Moon Floral Design Showcase

The Ninth Moon Floral Design Showcase will be held on November 7-9 at the Portland, Oregon Lan Su Chinese Garden. In this video clip Leanne shares her inspiration and techniques in creating the floral design used in the publicity poster for the event.

A coral garden rose

2015 Flower Trends Preview

Leanne just returned from the 2014 Society of American Florists (SAF) convention. One of her favorite parts of this industry gathering is the new flower varieties showcase. This is an opportunity to view hundreds of gorgeous new flower varieties and chat with the flower breeders, growers and distributors. You will be seeing these new blossoms in 2015. Enjoy!