Flower Basics
Your perfect beginner starting point for hobby flower arranging at home.
Use all the skills and knowledge you will learn in this course to feed your inner creativity during this detailed video tutorial course.
What's Included
You will receive 9 beginner floristry video tutorials and an accompanying eBook with step-by-step guides.
Buttonhole/Boutonniere
A floristry staple for weddings and formal events. Once you nail your wiring & taping techniques, through this course, the sky is the limit to the creativity you can express with a buttonhole.
Table Centrepiece
Learn how to create a stunning table centrepiece for your next gathering or event. Take as a gift for your next hosts! The basics of a centrepiece can be reinterpreted infinitely, giving you an endless supply of variety.
Gift Bag Arrangement
Gift bag flower designs are fun and make great gifts. They can be as large or small as you like, patterned or plain, or even repurposed baskets or containers of any kind.
Garden Herb & Rose Posy
One of the most original floral arrangements. Learn the spiralling technique for creating posies and bouquets. This spin on the traditional posy incorporates fresh ingredients from the garden.
Tropical Arrangement
Often seen in corporate office or home settings, this spectacular arrangement teaches you how to work with standout tropicals and create a linear design, emphasising negative space and natural lines.
Care of Botanical Materials
Learn how to condition and care for your botanical materials, before & after arranging, to get the most life span and enjoyment from them.
Vases, Containers & Foam
Yvette will take you through the many types of vessels and vases used in floristry and the variety of ways you can use them.
Tools & Accessories
Having the right tools in floristry and flower arranging is critical to keep you clean, safe and efficient, while giving you the ability to be creative and innovative with your designs.
Wiring & Taping
Learn the basics of wiring and taping, to make buttonholes, cake flowers, flower crowns, bouquets and so much more.
Become Your Own Bloom Boss ✳︎
Meet Yvette
Yvette Timmins, Founder of MyBlooms & Bloom College
Welcome to MyBlooms, a safe space for aspiring hobby flower arrangers to learn more about the craft and the beautiful flowers they work with. If you have been following along the Bloom journey, you’ll know that I successfully created and ran Bloom College, a floristry school, for the last ten years. As a career florist myself, it brought me so much joy to help teach a new generation of florists, but for the last few years there’s been a little niggle in the back of my mind. With more people joining Bloom College’s beginner courses as a way to get into flower arranging as a hobby, I knew I wanted to create something specific for this group.
This is where the idea for MyBlooms began. MyBlooms is for the hobby florists. For those with little to no experience arranging flowers, who aren’t necessarily looking to turn it into a business, but want to play with flowers for the joy of it. I’ve always believe that the positive energy of flowers is food for our souls, and this is the vision behind MyBlooms. To bring more positive change to your life as your arrange flowers.
MyBlooms features courses, toolkits, books, and blogs, all tailored to those at the very beginning of their flower journey.
It’s my sincere hope that what you find here helps to enrich your soul as you begin to play with your own blooms.
Yvette x
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, this is absolutely the course content for you. The 40+ course videos and textbooks will guide you step by step through the basics and foundational skills and knowledge required to be a florist. The course also includes hours of business training, both pre-recorded and live, specific to running your own floristry business, whether it be from home or a retail outlet.
Yes, you can absolutely skip the design tutorials and just watch & learn what you require. Please keep in mind, the course content is released over 12 weeks so you won’t receive all the content at once, it is designed to take you from the basics of floristry & business through to more complex design techniques and business strategies, building your business up to succeed.
Hint: We recommend using the foundational skills and design tutorials for training your staff, even friends and family who might be helpers!
The content does not have an expiry date and is always available for you in your online membership area, so there’s no rush. We suggest dedicating approximately 3-4 hours per week to study.
To ensure we can deliver this course to you regardless of your location, we have removed a large cost of the course content by not supplying you with the flowers required to create each design that is taught. The added benefits of not supplying and charging you the cost of the flowers allows you to go at your own pace, meaning you can decide to create each design when you choose. On top of that, you get to choose a variety of colours of flowers to your own liking and taste. We highly recommend buying what’s in season within your region. You are better able to achieve this by sourcing your own materials. Knowing how and what to buy and who to buy from are all part of the early course content.
Ready To Get Started?
You are just one step away from beginning your journey to becoming your very own bloom boss. You will receive full access to the course instantly. With options to pay in full, or in instalments.