Floral Design Careers

Floral design careers - Do you stop to smell the roses? If so, why not arrange them too?

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Floral designers create floral arrangements, advise wedding planners, and work in florist shops as plant care consultants, dried flower and artificial display designers, and floral advisers. Request free information about a Diploma in Floral Design. Flower design is an old art and most people enjoy weekend gardening.

If you are a flower enthusiast or a master designer you can turn that into a career. You will learn the art of form, proportion, color, balance, texture, and style. Whether you just want to learn the basics of arranging flowers, have a real passion for flower design, or are considering a career in floristry a course or diploma in floral design will help get you there.

Education and Training

Some of your local flower shop may offer on-the-job training but when it comes to designing flowers, quality classroom instruction combined with real-world floral design experience will go a long way.

Although a high school diploma is usually acceptable for floral designer, formal training is also very helpful. In floral design school you will lean how to trim flowers and arrange bouquets, sprays, wreaths, fish gardens, and terrariums. Floral design schools such as Penn Foster also provide training on how to cut and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage into designs, according to the customer's order.

Expected Salary and Projected Career Growth

In 2006, the median annual earnings for wage and salary floral designers was about $22,000. The middle 50% in floral design careers made between $17,690 and $27,330. The lowest 10% made less than $15,040, and the highest 10% percent earned more than $33,650. Median annual earnings were $23,990 in grocery stores and $21,210 in florists’ shops.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, about 33% of floral designers are self employed, about 45% work in florist shops and another 10% work in grocery stores. Floral designers generally work from written orders indicating the occasion, customer preference for color and type of flower, price, time at which the floral arrangement or plant is to be picked up or delivered. Your assignment will depend on the size of the shop and number of orders coming in. In a small operation, floral designers may own their shops and do almost everything, from growing and purchasing flowers to keeping financial records. This old profession is expected to keep growing as long as people continue buy flowers for special occasion or ‘just because’.

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