Flower Freelance Intensive '22

After a busy season in 2021 and February started to wind down, we could not wait for our annual workshop, the Flower Freelance Intensive. This year we had some incredible panelists and instructors who we can’t thank enough for being apart of this incredible week. While we do cover everything, from creating floral pieces with emphasis on speed and precision, to handling on-site crises with unflappable composure, we loved the extra focus this year on centerpieces, installations, and bouquets.

For those interested for next year’s workshop, the Flower Freelance Intensive is appropriate for those with and without prior floral experience, and is the perfect workshop to help build a strong foundation or further hone in your skills . For further details and to fill out an application click here. Photography by Charlotte Mcgehee.

Sue Prutting, of White Magnolia Designs, teaching students about creating round centerpieces.

Students being taught by Sophie Felts of Sophie Felts Floral Design.

Large scale installations being taught by Halima of The Floral Guru.

Lauren and Rachel, of Sweet Root Village, teaching about personals and large urn arrangements.

Amy Nicole of The Floral Coach teaching students to design bouquets.

Colorful raised arrangements taught by Designs By Oochay.

This year’s fabulous students

All photos were taken by Charlotte Mcgehee.

The Flower Freelance Intensive

As February starts winding down we are getting closer to our workshop, the Flower Freelance Intensive. We wanted to take some time to look back on last year, and show a little behind the scenes for anyone who is thinking about joining us this season. The Flower Freelance Intensive is appropriate for those with and without prior floral experience, and is the perfect workshop to help build a strong foundation or further hone in your skills. The 2019 Flower Freelance Intensive will be an 8 day course held from April 8th through April 14th at our studio in Laytonsville, Maryland. For further details and to fill out an application click here.

Last year’s students being taught by Sophie Felts of Sophie Felts Floral Design.

Sue Prutting, our cohost, of White Magnolia Designs teaching students about mechanics.

Kelly Shore, from Petals by the Shore, teaching students to design centerpieces.

Lauren and Rachel, of Sweet Root Village, teaching on large scale arrangements and installations.

Lori Tran of Wild Green Yonder teaching students to design bouquets and arches.

Mary Ellen of Steelcut Flower Co. teaching students to design centerpiece and installations.

The final day of the workshop is always a meet and greet where students get to connect with leading florists in the area who are looking to hire freelancers for the coming season.

All photos were taken by Jen, of Jen S Photography

Sol Yoga Flower Workshop

In addition to working with Sophie at Blossom and Vine, I also work at Sol Yoga in Frederick, MD.  One day over the summer, I was talking to Erin, a yoga teacher, and she suggested we do a staff flower workshop because yoga and flowers clearly go hand-in-hand. So we set a date and invited the staff out to Daphne Hill for a floral design workshop. We asked Jen of Jen S Photography to come take photos and create an arrangement with us (she turned out to be one heck of a designer!). The day was warm and lovely and we had a blast getting to arrange just for fun and share the beauty of flowers with the Sol team. The icing on the cake, though, was when studio founder, Dorcas McWilliams, surprised us all and showed up at the workshop straight from the airport. She lives in New Caledonia and runs the studio remotely. She had secretly made plans to be in town during the workshop and to be present for the 300 hour teacher graduation, taking place the same weekend. The BEST surprise and the best day.