Sustainable Floristry: 8-Week Career Change Course
Begin your floristry journey with our hands-on sustainable floristry course at Burwood Brickworks. Learn professional techniques using seasonal flowers.
Our Introduction to Sustainable Floristry is a hands-on, beginner-friendly course created for those curious about turning a love of flowers into a profession. You’ll work with locally grown, seasonal blooms while learning the real foundations of floristry — not just how to arrange, but how to think and work like a professional florist.
Workshop sessions are held at Burwood Brickworks in Burwood East, home to our Botaniculture retail store and farm city shop. Here, you’ll experience the rhythm of a working flower business as we prepare flowers for customers, workshops and events.
Working with fresh, seasonal blooms grown on our Silvan flower farm and sourced from local growers, you’ll gain practical insight into the craft of floristry while learning in a relaxed, supportive environment.
Start your floristry journey — view the 8-week schedule!
Meet Your Florist — Bel
Bel is a farmer-florist and co-owner of Botaniculture ( retail flower shop ) and Flowers from our Farm ( wholesale flower farm ). With over 35 years of experience in the retail gift giving industry — including running both a busy brick-and-mortar and online store — Bel brings practical business knowledge alongside design skills. Her teaching is grounded, transparent and focused on building confidence.
Meet Your Grower — Mark
Mark is a horticulturist and co-owner of Botaniculture and Flowers from our Farm. Mark brings a lifetime of horticultural experience and a deep understanding of floriculture ( flower farming ). His knowledge of soil, crop planning, seasonality and growing quality stems underpins everything we do. He shares the growing side of the story — the part many florists never see, but that changes how you will design forever.
Together, we offer a genuine, behind-the-scenes look at a working flower farm and floristry business — honest, seasonal and rooted in experience.
If you’re ready to explore floristry in a way that feels real and sustainable, we’d love to welcome you.
At Botaniculture, flowers start in the ground — not in a bucket.
Each week, you’ll work with locally grown flowers, freshly picked from our own farm or thoughtfully sourced from nearby growers, always naturally in season. You’ll experience how availability shifts week to week, how colour palettes are shaped by climate, and how stem length, texture and structure influence your design decisions.
Rather than forcing an outcome, you’ll learn to respond to what the season offers. This practical understanding — working with nature instead of against it — is what underpins sustainable, long-lasting floral work.
You don’t need to grow your own flowers to benefit from this knowledge. But once you understand where flowers come from — and when — everything changes. You design differently. You source differently. You begin to trust your own eye.
Inspired by nature, you’ll gradually develop a style that feels authentic, grounded and entirely your own.
This course is perfect for:
• Aspiring florists looking to build strong, practical foundations
• Creatives and flower lovers wanting a deeper connection to seasonal blooms
• Career changers ready to explore floristry with confidence
• Small business owners refining their sourcing and styling approach
• Growers expanding into design
You don’t need prior experience — just curiosity, a willingness to get your hands dirty, and a love of flowers. By the end, you’ll understand where flowers come from, how the seasons shape your choices, and how to design in a way that feels authentic, grounded, and entirely your own.