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Essential Customer Service and Retail Skills For Florists
Following on from our post on Taking Client Orders, let’s now look a bit further into Customer Service and Retail skills. Developing Customer Service and Retail skills is a key component of our Floristry Courses in Melbourne and Geelong, and we go into more detail here. It’s important to note that floristry has specific requirements,Read more
Taking Client Orders – What You Need To Know
Whether you are working as florist within a business, or have your own business, taking client orders will be part of your usual day. These orders will be quite specific in their requirements, so it’s important that you record all of the details accurately – and that you ask all the right questions. It mayRead more
Sustainability – and the crucial role the floristry industry plays
Sustainability is relevant in all of our daily lives – both in a local sense, and globally. It is important to make educated decisions and choices for how you create and maintain sustainable practices within your floristry business and also at home. When it comes to our philosophies on sustainability within the floristry industry –Read more
Want to know how to become a florist?
Want to know how to become a florist? Learn how at Bloom College by enrolling into our upcoming Floristry Career Change Course. Bloom College is a well-respected and dynamic provider of floristry training. Our years of combined skills, knowledge and passion make this course the right choice if you are wishing to change careers, orRead more
Mothers Day around the globe
Last year we only touched on the origins, traditions and practices associated with Mother’s Day as part of our ode to the many meanings associated with chrysanthemums around the globe. The gift of cut or potted chrysanthemums can symbolise grief, bereavement, joy, general affection, an attempt to assist in healing sinus problems, love, a wishRead more
It’s great to be slow – ‘slow flower movement’
It’s great to be slow! Britain’s The Telegraph reported from Kenya a few days before Valentine’s Day. Many thousands of locals in the flower-growing areas around Naivasha were busily harvesting and packaging roses for their journeys to stores thousands of kilometres away. The report was heartening, highlighting how some growers and buyers (including British supermarketRead more
Best wedding flower blogger award goes to Flowerona
Congratulations to Rona Wheeldon for the award of best Wedding Flower blogger, a huge achievement. For those who are yet to be inspired and engaged by Rona’s posts you can find her on the following link http://flowerona.com/ Be sure to check her post tomorrow when she presents her interview with me. http://bloomcollege.com.au/shop/collingwood-vic/wedding-flowers/
To preserve or not to preserve
At Bloom College flower school we’re all about helping people have fun whilst learning about the art and craft of flower arranging. Design and technique, though, are of little use if the beautiful flowers you’re arranging wilt and die before your very eyes. Professional florists often sell or give customers a little sachet ofRead more
Flower growing….where do our flowers come from?
Don’t ask, don’t tell: what’s the true price of our flowers? An Australian wholesaler told me a few years ago that the roses I was admiring in their warehouse had been imported from Kenya. The reason the roses’ bud form persisted during the flight and other supply chain stages involved in getting them to theRead more