Bouquets and table centre pieces filled our Geelong courses and workshops last week with fun and beautyYvette

Well what a busy week it was at Bloom College as we made a variety of table centrepieces and beautiful big bouquets across our courses and workshops. In our first class of the week students enjoyed learning the techniques necessary to create large circular table centres to display a variety of items in the centre like clear fishbowls with candles and the like. The table centres featured fruits like lemons, apples and pears and included sweet smelling freesia, herbs, chrysanthemum and more. Our mid week workshop saw students taking on a very different style of table centre arrangement creating smaller round centrepieces including the last of the seasons ‘fair bianca’ David Austin rose from Soho rose farm. The individiual table centres also included purple lisianthus, black privet berry, ivy berry, white freesia and more. The table centre arrangements were then brought together as a collaboration to form one beautiful big long table centrepiece. Students then decorated the table with trimmings such as hessian, gorgeous scented candles from the flower dispensary, french terracotta tube pots were used to hold a single candle with a place card holder and we littered the table with berries, nandina, dodda vine and more. Our final workshop for the week taught students the skills to create lovely big bouquets, not the simplest of tasks in floristry most would agree, but certainly one of the most enjoyable and rewarding once mastered. And of course the bouquet required wrapping and then students learnt the need for good presentation and practiced wrapping and simple bow making. It was a wonderful week, thanks to all who participated.