Flower Farmer to Florist - One Day Course

Join Heart of BS13 at our charity's sustainable flower farm for a hands-on day of flower farming and floristry!

This course is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to grow and arrange your own flowers, whether you're just starting out, want to improve your skills or get a taste of a career in flower farming.

It will include two sessions:

1. Growing Seasonal Flowers

Sol, our Horticulture Programme Manager, will guide you through the essentials of growing flowers throughout the seasons.

You will learn:

• Planning Your Flower Beds: How to layout your beds for maximum productivity.
• Sowing & Transplanting: Best practices for seed sowing, pricking out, and transplanting.
• Spacing & Care: How to space plants properly for healthy growth.
• Soil Health: How to improve and maintain healthy soil.
• Managing Weeds & Pests: Tips on identifying and controlling weeds and pests naturally.

• Biodiversity & Composting: Promoting biodiversity and how to compost to enrich your soil.

This session will include an introduction to our charity and social enterprise and tour of the flower farm.

2. Harvesting & Arranging Flowers

Clem, our Head Florist, will teach you how to care for the flowers you've grown, from cutting and conditioning to creating your own arrangements.

You will learn:

• Harvesting & Conditioning: How to pick flowers at their best and keep them fresh.
• Professional Harvesting Tips: Do’s and don’ts for cutting stems, conditioning flowers and vase life top tips.
• Flower Arranging: Basics of colour palettes, composition, and design principles.

• Wrapping Like a Pro: How to wrap your bouquet with professional flair.

In this session, you will utilise your new cutting and conditioning knowledge to pick your own flowers for a flower arranging session.

You will take home:

• Seeds you’ve sown and plug plants to get you growing.

• Your bouquet of flowers

Please bring a packed lunch. Tea, coffee & cake will be provided throughout the day.

When: 10am – 3:30pm Saturday 16 May 2026

Cost: £140(We have limited £10 spaces available on each workshop for BS13 residents who are in receipt of means-tested benefits – if this applies to you please select this option below).

Where: Heart of BS13 Flower Farm, Hartcliffe City Farm, Lampton Avenue, Hartcliffe, BS13 0QH

Parking: There is no parking on the farm. Please park considerately on the nearby streets. If you have access requirements, please email us at flowers@heartofbs13.org.uk or call Sol on 07762092648.

For further information about this course, please contact flowers@heartofbs13.org.uk or call Sol on 07762092648.

Please note: we require a minimum number of 6 participants to run this course.

Private booking? We also run private and corporate workshops - please get in touch if you'd like to discuss this.

When you book on to a workshop with Heart of BS13, you are helping fund our charity's work to tackle inequality and create green education and training opportunities in our South Bristol community - thank you!

We look forward to welcoming you to the flower farm.