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Honest Conversations with Bloom & Burn
Flowering in today’s world is hard. Our conversation with Graeme Corbett of Bloom & Burn is full of goodness. He is very humbly and vulnerably chatting about the current difficulty of his business and his outlook is inspiring.
Diving into the Flower Color Wheel
Discover strategies for how to use the flower color wheel to your advantage in floral design.
5 Simple Tips to Elevate Your Floral Design Work
Accessing different floral materials in various thicknesses, heights, and shapes is important to adding dimension to your design work. Learn 5 simple tips to elevate your flower arrangements in this guide.
Finding Joy in Painting Flowers with Safiyyah Studios
UK botanical artist Safiyya Choyocha shares with us the joy and inspiration she finds in painting flowers and gardening. She shares where she finds her own inspiration and her advice for how to overcome a creative rut.
Tips for Finding Floral Inspiration Beyond Your Front Door
Team Flower Member Ashely Monaghan shares practical tips and insight for finding floral inspiration wherever you look, wherever you go, and in any season!
Team Flower's "Best of" Floral Journeys
For our 200th episode, we’re highlighting some of our favorite podcast moments that center on the beauty of our individual floral journeys. Hear from experienced floral professionals throughout the industry about what led them to flowers!
Upselling the Bridesmaid Bouquet
Don’t let gorgeous bridesmaid bouquet designs go to waste after the wedding ceremony—learn how to repurpose these bouquets in creative ways that make both budget-conscious clients and floral designers happy!
Conversations on Thoughtful Gardening with Matt Collins
Joining Kelly on the podcast today is Matt Collins—all the way from the UK! Matt is the author of the book Forest and has a deep passion for taking in nature and making a garden to reflect it. He’s chatting with us about many things, including maintaining and growing a garden: observe, grow what you love, and repeat.
How Floral Design Is Like Baking a Cake
Recipes give us focus and direction. They help ensure that we have the right ingredients on hand and don't overspend on needless supplies. Here’s how floral design is like baking a cake!
Allowing the Garden to Influence Your Creative Process with Fiona Pickles
Fiona Pickles of Fiona Pickles Floral is sharing with us about being inspired by the garden, the ins and outs of her communication with her clients, as well as how she allows the flowers and her creativity lead her design.
Working With Flowers Can Change Your Life: Here’s How
Here's how working with flowers has changed the lives of our Team Flower Members—and it can do the same for you. If you've been wondering if working with flowers is for you, this might just be the encouragement you need!
Overcoming Hardship in Your Small Business and How to Bounce Back
There is no tried-and-true formula to ease hardship or process grief and difficult feelings. We all experience these things in a unique way. If you’re a small business owner, it can be difficult to navigate hardship while also managing your business. Here are some tips to navigate difficulty alongside running your business.
Generating New Ideas and Finding Your Creative Voice with Hart Floral
What are the things that make it hard to find your creative voice? How do you overcome your fears and anxieties? Hear from Madison Hartley of Hart Floral as she speaks with us on creativity and so much more.
A Day in the Life with Hazel Gardiner
Hazel is sure to be a breath of fresh air as you listen to this episode of the Team Flower Podcast. She is an incredible woman, talented floral designer, and, today, is sharing her story of how her cancer diagnosis propelled her into flowers—along with much, much more in this full episode!
Creating Purposeful Floral Designs Inspired by Fine Art
In the same way that different orientations and compositional effects greatly affect a painting, so do these same elements when used in floral design. In this article, you’ll learn to take in important considerations such as shape, lines, and balance when creating floral arrangements!
Flowers Over Fear with Grace McDonald
In this episode, floral design studio owner Grace McDonald of Flower Clvb is discussing choosing flowers over fear during a pandemic. Grace’s studio specializes in as-locally-grown-as-possible floral design for weddings and events and also offers seasonal bouquets and foam-free custom arrangements at various times throughout the year.
Taking Floral Design Lessons from the Woods
What has deeply driven your floral design style? Hear from one designer as he shares how to observe the natural arrangements of life found in the woods to apply to flower design work.
Inspiring the Next Generation of Flower Farmers
Inspiring the next generation of flower farmers and floral professionals is a crucial task. Discover how one group of middle schoolers have successfully started a flower farm that has impacted their community.
Embracing Wellness and Creativity with Nectar + Bloom
You’ll be inspired by Jen’s gift with words as she shares her experience on her parents’ farm growing up and how that propelled her into various stages of life eventually leading to flowers. Jen is sharing the keys to giving oneself permission to carry out actions from a passionate heart. You’ll hear about the symbiotic relationship between creativity and wellness and how to lean into that for your own life. Jen is calling florists to action in taking care of themselves and she’s providing tips on how to do that well with community, support, education, healing, movement, and nourishment.