Leanne Talks the Essentials for Floral Design 

What a lovely compliment this is, Gretta! Thank you for this delightful post and for spending some time here to watch another Live. If you ever want to join us on the show, it airs on Wednesdays at 3:00 pm Pacific Time, and you can ask questions of Leanne and the FDI teachers while they design. Yes, there are naughty flowers and we have to make them behave for our floral designs. Sometimes it is better to use them in something different. We hope that your life is filled with beautiful flowers and we look forward to having you here with us again soon!

You are most welcome, Julio! We absolutely adore sharing gorgeous floral design with you and we are so grateful that you spend time with us to enjoy it. Thank you for your kind words of praise and for supporting what we do. It would be wonderful to host you here again soon, and we look forward to seeing you on our channel. Sending you so much peace, joy, and, flowers for your week and beyond!

You’ve just become part of my life!🙏🏻💙😋

What a truly beautiful thing to say, Teresa! It's so inspiring for us. Thank you for your kind and lovely words of praise and for watching this special Live. We are so glad you join us as often as you do, and hope you will visit us whenever you can. Sending you very best wishes and we hope you have a glorious week in your work with flowers!

That is a beautiful compliment, Melinda! Thank you for it and for taking some time to watch our show. We hope you enjoyed this in-depth look at the essentials for floral design. It would be wonderful to have you join us again soon, and we hope to see you then. Best wishes for a delightful week with flowers every day!

We've so enjoyed having you on Live the last two weeks, Midnight Blue! You bring a lot of interesting perspectives to the discussion, and we appreciate your contributions. Thank you for all of your kind and lovely support and for spending time with us whenever you can. We look forward to sharing photos of Leanne's designs over the weekend, and we hope you will let us know what you think of them. Wishing you flowers in abundance, and hope all goes well for you!

That's superb news, Shawn! We are so happy to hear this and are so glad that you are finding our shows helpful. If you would ever like to join us on Flower School Live, our show airs on Wednesdays at 3:00 pm Pacific Time here on the Flower School RU-vid channel, and if you stop by then, you can ask questions of Leanne and the FDI teachers while they design. If that time doesn’t work for you, we’ll always be here on replay too. Thank you very much for spending some time with us, and we hope that we'll see you again very soon. Best wishes to you and please have a joyous week with beautiful flowers too!

Hello Jalen and welcome to Flower School Live! We're delighted to see you here on our channel, and we hope you enjoyed watching this marvelous Live all about the essentials for floral design. Please feel free to join us whenever you have the time, and we look forward to hosting you again soon. Sending you very best wishes for a wonderful week and hope you have fabulous flowers wherever you go!

Hello Pam and thank you for watching our show! We hope the beautiful floral designs helped you get back to sleep. We're so glad you could join us for Live on replay, and we hope you will stop by again soon. Sending you very best wishes and hope flowers fill your life all month long!

Hello Conch Concierge Weddings and welcome to the Flower School channel! We're so happy to have you join us here and hope that you will find our shows enjoyable and interesting. Thank you for taking a moment to watch this special Live and learn more about the essentials for floral design. It's a great way to build a foundation from which to create fabulous arrangements. If you happen to be looking for anything in particular, please let us know and we'll do our best to help you find it. Wishing you all the best and hope you have a stellar weekend!

Hello Milly and thank you for stopping by to watch our show! We do have a few videos on sunflowers and here's one that you might enjoy seeing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0ep3BAzFmVc.html It's a fabulous arrangement that mixes sunflowers with other blooms. If you happen to be looking for something else, please do let us know and we'll do our best to help you find it. Wishing you a superb week and hope flowers play a part in it all!

Anthurium is one of our favorite flowers and we use it in many of our arrangements, Conch Concierge Weddings! You will find it appearing often in our playlist about tropical flowers: ru-vid.com/group/PLJbJF6YZAYyKG4O5CKqjRkzM3lxYWVQTN Thank you for spending some time with us to learn more. We forgot to mention it earlier, but we love Key West and happened to be visiting there last year. Wishing you a most beautiful week in your work and hope it all goes well for you! P.S. Looking forward to seeing you again soon!

You got all of the elements in there, Sandra! Well done and thank you for sharing them with us as well as watching our show. The elements and principles form the foundation for fabulous floral design and that's why they are so important. We appreciate you taking the time to share them with us and we hope you enjoyed the Leanne's discussion. Hopefully we'll see you again soon and we look forward to the opportunity to bring you more marvelous arrangements featuring beautiful blooms. Wishing you all the best and please have a lovely weekend!

Hello Imelda! We went make and looked at the video and Leanne was working with an orange cube and a tall orange vase. In both of those she placed clean water and flower food so the flowers would be fresh and beautiful. We do have flower food available on our website her: www.floraldesigninstitute.com/products/fresh-flower-food-individual-pack-10-ounce-tub It really works well to support the vase life of the flowers. Thank you for joining us for Live and we hope to see you again soon. Sending you best wishes for all that you do and hope all goes well for you!

Those are excellent questions and very important ones, Galaxyjam! When working in foam, we do suggest leaving a little space around the foam so that you can insert a small watering can or test tube filler to add water to the floral design. With floral netting the reservoir for water is usually larger and and can be filled more easily. Adding (and/or changing) water is so important to make sure the flowers stay fresh and beautiful. We're happy to help in any way we can and please consider our channel to be a resource for you as you learn more about floral design. You might be interested in our playlist about Fresh Flower Care and Handling which you can find here: ru-vid.com/group/PLJbJF6YZAYyJ_9ifJEvd-jBqhmUm97PVz Wishing you all the best and thank you for spending some time with us to learn more about the marvelous world of floral design!

Hello Anita and thank you for stopping by to watch Live! That's a great question and we're so glad you asked it. We work mostly in fresh flowers although we occasionally add permanent botanicals (silk flowers) and also dried flowers into our floral designs. Our focus is on fresh flowers for the most part, but the skills and techniques we teach also work with silk flowers as well. We hope you will spend more time with us in the coming weeks and we look forward to that opportunity. Wishing you a marvelous week in all that you do and hope you have fabulous flowers wherever you go!

That's an excellent question, Reagan 1980! It really depends on how much the materials cost wholesale and how much product you use for each design plus your labor and time in creating them. Tropical flowers tend to cost more depending on where you are in the world because they must be flown from one place to another. We encourage people to pick up price lists from floral wholesalers to see what flowers and foliage cost these days. The prices will vary seasonally and depending on what's available. Thank you for taking the time to watch our show, and we hope you will visit us again soon. Best wishes to you and please enjoy flowers whenever you can!

Thank you for your feedback and for letting us know what you think, Barbara! We hope you will join us again soon for more marvelous opportunities in floral design and we wish you the very best.

That's an interesting observation, Marianne! Leanne probably would have gone taller with the liatris, but she wanted to keep the floral design within the frame of the camera. Shortening the anthuriums a little might have been the easiest solution. Thank you for sharing your perspective on this marvelous floral design, and we hope you will stop by this weekend to see all of the photos. Wishing you a superb week and hope you will enjoy flowers too!

For this show, you gave us all of the emojis, Emmanuel! We take that to mean that you enjoyed this Live with those vibrant colors and flowers Leanne used for her floral designs. Thank you very much for spending a little time with us this week. We look forward to sharing the photos of all the arrangements over the weekend, and we would love to have you join us for those as well. It's May and we hope this month treats you well in beautiful ways. Wishing you well and please have a happy weekend!

That's interesting, Village Floral House, LLC! We hope it all went well, and it was a positive and easy experience for you. Thanks for taking some time to watch Flower School Live as well. We hope you enjoyed this show, and we look forward to seeing you whenever you find time to spend with us. Wishing you a stellar week, and hope it is filled with flowers of all kinds too!

@@FlowerSchool Been a fan for years! Rewatch every episode!

We're delighted to hear that! Thank you for being a long time fan of our channel, and for watching so many of our shows. Wishing you a beautiful week in your work with flowers!

More than one person has said that about Leanne, Yelena! She has such a breadth and depth of knowledge about floral design which is so essential and useful. Her arrangements are always lovely and it is a lot of fun to watch her create pieces. Thank you for stopping by to see this Live and we hope you enjoyed the show. Please feel free to join us whenever you can and we wish you the very best in all that you do!

Ikebana inspired floral designs are incredibly beautiful, Roxanne! We love them very much and are happy to hear that you do as well. Leanne has shared a few over the years and they are splendid in their simple, elegant, and effective style. Thank you very much for taking the time to watch Live and we hope you enjoyed seeing what was created for the show. We would be honored if you would join us again whenever you can, and we look forward to that time. Wishing you all the best and please have a splendid week with fantastic flowers!