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What is it Like Being a Florist

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED BEING A FLORIST

When I get asked about my job as a florist I often get the same response. “Oh your life must be like a romantic fairytale” or something of that sort. In reality, things are often more hectic and comedic than romantic.

In the short amount of time that I’ve been emerged in this business I’ve realised that being a successful florist requires a lot of creative sporadicity, but it also requires you to possess killer listening skills for all the therapy sessions you’ll need to provide your customers with



I’ve also learned that every rose has its thorns. Some are more like razor sharp crocodile teeth, and their only mission in life is to lodge themselves deeply into your already overly abused fingertips. And found out that when the latin name for a certain type of flower is translated to “baby’s urine”. There’s usually a good reason why.



So why do I do it? Simply, because I grew to love it. I subconsciously carry the flowers with me wherever I go. When there’s leftovers at the end of creating a marriage bouquet, I often get lost in the moment. Playing around with the colours, the textures and the smells, is in my humble opinion the most underrated antidepressant in the world.



Creativity is freeing, unless you have a micromanaging client that believes he or she is a florist themselves. Like any artist you get to create one-of-a-kind creations. A world of flowers at your fingertips, colours galore, and they’re all there, lying and waiting for you to bring them together into a masterpiece.

The Biggest Challenges as a Florist

Over the course of 2 weeks we’ve conducted a short 3-minute survey to determine what the biggest challenges for florists are today. Below we’ve listed a sample of the most reoccurring answers that were given to us.

– Keeping pace with trends, people often want flowers that are not in season. Finding those within the desired timeframe and budget can be incredibly challenging and stressful.

– Trying to make customers understand that “something simple” in a wedding bouquet is just as time consuming and expensive as something large. As they often forget a florist’s time does not come for free.

– The ever changing flower costs, getting a correct quota from supplies in the first try.

– Nowadays every florist must have an online presence. Figuring out the must lucrative and effective areas of advertising without being tacky is in its own, similar to a grand scale science project.

– Negotiating with customers on what’s doable within their budget. They often want superior designs but want to keep a low budget at the same time.

– Getting your clients to think of flowers as something they should have in their house at all times.

In a nutshell, most florists nowadays are struggling to provide value for money to their customers. With social media platforms such as Pinterest, clients often want the impossible. A florist needs to balance being an actual florist with being a photographer, e-commerce specialist, accountant, merchant and sometimes, therapist.

What are your thoughts on this? Let us know by leaving a comment !

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How to Preserve Your Flowers

How to Preserve Your Flowers

Flowers are great when giving as a gift, and a lot of times it is for a very meaningful/special situation. If you got flowers for a birthday or an anniversary how do you know how to save them from dying out. There are many different ways that you can do this. Find out what option will work best for the flowers you have, and preserve the memories forever. There are a few different ways that you can preserve them through pressing and drying the flowers.

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Drying flowers

Drying flowers can generally be done one or two ways. The easiest way is to usually hang the flowers. When you hang them, you want to make sure its tied upside down making it easy to dry. If the bouquet is larger, you will want to take it apart into a few smaller bunches, so they can dry quicker and more evenly. Another option is to air dry the flowers. A window screen works perfect for this, as it allows air to circulate around the flowers. Place them in a simple layer and let them dry out. This will generally take a week or so. Either one of these are great ways to get those flowers dried out so it can be saved for later.

Pressing flowers

Another way to preserve flowers is to press them. There are flower presses that you can purchase that works more like a vice squeezing the different layers together to get a great press. Also you can press them in between a book if you don’t have a flower press, just make sure its layered with something, so put the petals in between parchment paper or waxed paper and it will help keep them safe once they are pressed. This is also a great way to save them, and when you press flowers you can use them to put in scrapbooks and other things.

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.Pressed flowers decoration

Other things people like to do is turn their flowers into potpourri. in other to do this, you will need to dry out the flowers by hanging them, you could even air dry them, or press them. Once thats done you want to be very careful not to break the petals, otherwise there will be no point in using them. Once the flower is dried the way you want it, you’ll need to add essential oils like lavender, rosemary oil, spices and herbs. This will keep them smelling great. From here, put it wherever you want and watch the smells fill the room.

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Dried rose bud which are used tea,cuisine and decoration

Keeping your flowers as a reminder of a special moment in our life is pretty common. There are a few different ways this can be done. Whether you are going to press them, dry them or even turn them into potpourri, you can keep them around for much longer than the flowers will last alive. Save special occasion flowers and use them to make keepsakes, put them in scrapbooks, and much more. Don’t just throw your flowers away after you get them, keep them as a reminder of great events and occassions.

Our flowers last over 10 days.

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