Category Archives: Flower Arranging Classes

All Day Wed­ding Work­shop – June 6, 2017 Green­ery is the 2017 Pan­tone Col­or of the Year Dear Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­phers: Please Han­dle with Care From Hand­shakes to Hugs What is your flo­ral design style? Flower Duet Fea­tured in Cal­i­for­nia Wed­ding Day Flower Book: Gar­denista Flower Tools: Clean­ing Tools Read the Jan­u­ary 2017 News…

Green Wed­ding Shoes — Octo­ber 2015 We had a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence styling and design­ing bou­quets and flo­ral crowns for a wed­ding dress and brides­maid dress­es fash­ion shoot for Joan­na August which has been fea­tured in Green Wed­ding Shoes, a super styl­ish and top­i­cal wed­ding blog. The fash­ion shoot high­light­ed the tal­ent­ed Joan­na August’s mis­matched brides­maid dress col­lec­tion.  Here is the great […]

We are very excit­ed to be part of the Pyg­malion pro­duc­tion by Pasade­na Play­house next month. We’ll be giv­ing a flower demo and lec­ture for the April 4th per­for­mance at the Play­house. After you come, you’ll be singing, “I could design flow­ers all night.…I could design flow­ers all night and still have made some more!!!!”

It’s our eighth year teach­ing flower design class­es at The Hunt­ing­ton Library! There is still time to sign up for our class this Sat­ur­day at The Hunt­ing­ton Library, Art Col­lec­tions, and Botan­i­cal Gar­dens. We’ll be fea­tur­ing flow­ers to com­ple­ment the famous Pinkie and Blue Boy paint­ings at the muse­um! You choose your col­or design, we’ll […]

  New Flower Arrang­ing Class­es! Our Wednes­day Night Wed­ding series con­tin­ues with a focus on per­son­al flow­ers like cor­sages, bou­ton­nieres and hair wreaths. Stu­dents will learn the key wiring tech­niques for all types of flow­ers from ros­es, to orchids and green­ery. Wednes­day, March 18, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. Reser­va­tions required — Sign up at our […]

This hol­i­day month, we taught many fresh hol­i­day wreath design class­es. Here are a few designs from our Christ­mas wreath and hol­i­day Wreath-mak­ing class­es. Enjoy the vari­ety of designs all based on a noble fir wreath base. Pic­tured above and below are pro­tea stems along with hang­ing ama­ran­thus accent­ing the fir wreath base. We added […]

I was asked to rep­re­sent Flower Duet as a guest lec­tur­er at The Ban­ning Muse­um for its Cel­e­bra­tion of Ros­es Day on May 3, 2014.  The Rose Soci­ety dis­played their home grown ros­es and there was a lec­ture on grow­ing gar­den ros­es in addi­tion to my lec­ture on how to arrange with ros­es. Here are […]

Flower Duet expands its Offer­ings on Design­ing with Suc­cu­lent Plants by Casey Schwartz We shared Kit’s suc­cu­lent wreath that we cre­at­ed at the end of Sep­tem­ber. It has been rest­ing and root­ing for the past month and is just about ready to hang. I made one as well and I have watched it trans­form and […]

Why not…it is sum­mer and that is what kids do in the summer…go to camp. I learned to sail and dig for clams at camp in the Hamp­tons of Long Island. How­ev­er the young ladies of Sier­ra Madre request­ed Flower Camp with Flower Duet. So that is what we did. Yes Emi­ly there is a […]

We at Flower Duet, based in Los Ange­les, have heard from all over the coun­try and even inter­na­tion­al­ly from flower enthu­si­asts search­ing for Flower Arrang­ing Class­es. Emi­ly Wein­stein of the New York Times Home and Gar­den Sec­tion did a won­der­ful piece yes­ter­day on the DIY flower arranger. Here is the link to her infor­ma­tive arti­cle […]