Floral Design Certificate of Completion
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Location: Lincoln Park Campus, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW

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All courses in the Certificate of Completion are offered every semester.

Take these introductory courses for fun or as a start to a career in the floral industry. Learn a variety of floral design skills and techniques for working with fresh flowers and plant materials. Learn from the best in the business. All of our instructors have years of professional floral design experience.

Note
All fresh flowers are included in course fees, but you are asked to bring some of your own supplies; for example, floral tools, a bucket, newsprint and garbage bags.

Earning Your Certificate of Completion
Complete the three required courses (54 hours) with a minimum of 80% attendance.

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Explore a Career in Floral Design

A Career in the Floral Industry
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Required Courses

All courses in this program are offered every semester.

Floral Design, Level 1
Explore the basics of floral design, including the care and handling of fresh flowers. Be introduced to the fundamental concepts of floral design and gain the necessary foundation for employment in the floral industry. Create and take home a different finished floral arrangement after each class.
Note: You can take this course even if you don’t plan to finish the certificate of completion.

Floral Design, Level 2
Advance your floral arranging skills with exciting new design ideas. Gain valuable hands-on experience with current industry concepts. Create and take home a different completed arrangement after each class.
Note: We strongly recommend completion of Floral Design, Level 1 before registering in this course. 

Floral Design, Level 3
Further develop your creativity and explore the elements of design. Have the opportunity to practise the latest trends in floral design technique. Discuss the care and handling of a variety of flowers, including tropicals, and then use them to create distinctive, stylish arrangements to take home.
Note: We strongly recommend completion of Floral Design, Level 2 before registering in this course.

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Professional Development Courses

Take home a beautiful completed project at the end of each class.

Advanced Floral Design Techniques       
Challenge your creativity with new techniques that advance your floral design skills. Complete five miniature floral examples and express your individual design sense by also completing a line design arrangement. Take home all six of your completed projects.
Prerequisites: Floral Design, Levels 1 and 2

Floral Designs for Funerals
Flowers are an important expression of sympathy for the bereaved family during their time of mourning. Funeral floral designs have evolved over time due to flower availability, more efficient design concepts and practical application. Discover how to create a standing spray, urn spray and memorial piece. Take home two completed projects.
Note: We strongly recommend completion of Floral Design, Level 3 or one year experience in a floral shop before registering in this course.

Historical Floral Designs
Since the beginning of time, flowers have reflected various lifestyles, values and special occasions. Floral art of today has been influenced by floral history, colour trends, designs and decorations. Explore floral history concepts and practical application for Roman-Greek, Renaissance, Baroque, Victorian, American Colonial and Art Nouveau designs.
Note: We strongly recommend completion of Floral Design, Level 2 or one year  working in the floral industry before registering in this course.

Corsage Workshop - NEW DATE!
Enhance your ability to create exciting fresh floral corsages. This 6-hour workshop reviews proper wiring techniques, pricing, new products, hot glues and their application, and knowledge of appropriate body flowers. Create a wrist corsage, shoulder corsage, boutonniere and hair flowers.
Note: We strongly recommend completion of Floral Design, Level 1 and/or work in the floral industry before registering in this course.

Basic Hand-Tied Bouquet
Make a round hand-tied bouquet using a grouping technique and finishing off the stems with a French knot design using raffia. Take home a beautiful rose hand-tied arrangement you created yourself. Beginners welcome.

Introduction to Floral Wedding Designs
Explore the basics of being a wedding florist. Delve into wedding floral design concepts and practical applications for wedding bouquet styles, pew bows, corsages, flower girl pieces and centrepieces. Discuss topics such as pricing, availability and ordering of flowers.
Note: We strongly recommend completion of Floral Design, Level 2 or one year of experience in a floral shop before registering in this course.

Floral Wedding Designs, Level 2
Gain the edge over your competition by enhancing your portfolio of advanced floral wedding techniques, including a cultural piece. Create elegant floral wedding design compositions each class, and expand on your historical and cultural knowledge of flowers and their ever-present appearance at weddings through the ages.
Recommended: Introduction to Floral Wedding Designs

Designing with Armatures     
Expand on the armature skills you learned in Floral Design, Level 2 by learning how to use armature techniques to support your floral design. Using decorative wire and natural branches, create a beautiful arrangement. Seasonal flowers will be used.
Note: We strongly recommend completion of Floral Design, Level 2 before registering in this course. 

Dynamic Line Designs   
Expand your knowledge of the Oval, Hogarth and Crescent floral arrangements that were introduced in Floral Design, Level 2. Explore the similarities and differences between these dynamic line designs. Create and take home a beautiful Crescent arrangement.
Prerequisite: Floral Design, Level 2.

Parallel Floral Arrangements: New Convention
Learn to construct clean, striking line designs with advanced floral techniques. Explore vertical and diagonal parallel designs. Create and take home your finished arrangement.
Prerequisite: Floral Design, Level 2.

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Fun Floral Courses

Come on your own or with friends and create a beautiful arrangement for your home or as a gift for someone special. Beginners are welcome in all classes unless a prerequisite is listed.

Ikebana, The Art of Japanese Floral Design
Ikebana is an art form created in Japan, using flowers and plant materials to express the beauty of nature, emphasizing line, rhythm, space and harmony. Express your creativity through this art form, whether you are new to floral arrangement or would like to broaden your skills. Bring home a beautiful Ikebana arrangement each week.
Note: limit of 15 students.

Ikebana, Level 2
Expand on the floral techniques you learned in Ikebana, The Art of Japanese Floral Design. Explore vertical, horizontal, straight and curved line compositional techniques that express the beauty and strength of your materials. Learn to create dynamic colour schemes and how to arrange flowers into shapes. Take home a unique arrangement each week.
Prerequisite: Ikebana, The Art of Japanese Floral Design; or Floral Design Level 1; or experience working in the industry.

Preparing Your Garden for Winter
Prepare your trees, shrubs and flowerbeds for the cold winter months to guarantee a better yard and garden next spring. Explore seasonal care and preparation, find out which types of plants best withstand Calgary’s climate and when to plant your fall bulbs. Look at pruning, watering, fertilization, mulching and working with nature.

Contemporary Floral Designs     
Think outside the box! Explore unconventional techniques to design and create a vibrant floral arrangement that is trendy, beautiful and sure to attract attention. Use a unique assortment of tropical flowers and greens to create a special arrangement to take home.

Getting Creative with Roses     
Arranging a dozen roses is one of the most fundamental floral designs that a florist must learn. Explore six creative placements of roses using different stem lengths and design styles. Both traditional and non-traditional methods are demonstrated.
Note: Consider this course to create a great Valentine's Day gift!

Easter Blooms                                                                                                                          
Create a stunning Easter floral design incorporating hydrangea, trachelium, roses, curly willow and Easter eggs. Explore the technique of interlacing flowers to create a natural grid within the vase and create a nest-like armature from the curly willow that frames the entire design.

Fall Rhapsody Bouquet
Create a vibrant autumn bouquet using a spiral technique. This round hand-tied bouquet is created using red apples, yellow sunflowers, orange hypericum berries, seasonal grasses, goldenrod and various greens.

Outdoor Fall Container
The beauty of your garden can continue long past the growing season. Create a beautiful floral outdoor fall container using greenery, branches and berries and enjoy your creation throughout the fall and winter seasons.

Fresh Christmas Wreath
Excite your senses with the smell of fresh Christmas greens as you create your own Christmas wreath for your front door. This fresh Christmas wreath is created using a wire wreath form, decorative bows, berries, twigs and an assortment of pine and cedar boughs.

Outdoor Christmas Container
Make a stunning outdoor Christmas container for your garden or front yard using an assortment of greens such as cedar, pine, fir, branches and pine cones as well as seasonal ribbon. Enjoy your outdoor Christmas container creation throughout the holiday season.

Christmas Table Centre and Decorations
Create a festive table for Christmas. Build a fresh floral centrepiece with mixed Christmas greens, fresh flowers, ribbon and candles. Create your own festive napkin rings and design tent place cards for your holiday table. All materials are included in the course.
Note: Limit of 15 students.

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