Flower Farmer to Florist - One Day Course

Schedule

Sat May 16 2026 at 10:00 am to 03:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Hartcliffe City Farm | Bristol, EN

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Join us for a hands on day growing and arranging your own cut flowers, at our charity's sustainable flower farm in South Bristol.
About this Event

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 [email protected] or call Sol on 07762092648.

For further information about this course, please contact [email protected] 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.

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Hartcliffe City Farm, Lampton Avenue, Bristol, United Kingdom

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