Skill explained

Florists:
• Design and prepare floral works appropriate to the wedding style, scale and character
• Consult with the client to establish floral requirements, themes, budget etc.
• Undertake a client consultation to determine needs, budgets, themes and ideas
• Be able to select flowers and other materials to create bouquets and other floristry works to communicate feelings or atmospheres
• Prepare floral work for safe and secure transportation
• Create large and complex displays appropriate for events such as a festival display or a corporate event
• Create floral displays to support events, theatre, TV and film
• Create floral designs using plants for appropriate for various themes, occasions and events
• Apply appropriate health and safety when working with plant displays
• Know how to handle and use botanical materials in floral designs
• Know how to prepare botanical materials for floral designs
• Understand the impact of heat, ventilation and lighting on the floral display

Required skills

• Be creative, artistic, innovative and resourceful
• Show initiative
• Be responsive and flexible to changing circumstances
• Have technical expertise
• Maintain continuous professional development in order to be aware of current trends, new ideas and styles and new materials
• Demonstrate a willingness to try new methods and embrace change
• Plan and organize work effectively to make best use of available resources
• Work within health and safety regulations and practice
• Work under time pressures and meet deadlines and targets
• Work effectively on own initiative and demonstrate a high degree of autonomy in working methods
• Work cleanly and methodically
• Priorities • work effectively according to the situation
• IT literate to conduct on-line business activities
• Be able to translate the language of flowers to communicate feelings or atmosphere

What the Competitors do at the Competition

The Competitor is judged on:

• Flowers and botanical material

• The tools and equipment that are used in floristry

• The theory of composition, colour, design and technique

• How to interpret a brief

• Apply design principles



The Competitor will be judged on their ability to:

• Select botanical materials, containers, technical aids/materials and decorative accessories for the planned design to comply with the room, the person, the wedding or the funeral, etc…

• Create a room decoration using suitable techniques such or combinations of techniques

• Condition and prepare the botanical materials for the design

• Create a shop design using botanical materials, interior furniture, stands, displays, vases, containers and accessories

• Design and prepare the full range of floral works used at a wedding including large and complex displays appropriate for a wedding

• Apply appropriate health and safety when working with plant displays