The essential techniques of floral art
Composing a bouquet means learning to play with colours, textures and volumes. Over an hour, you choose your dried or preserved flowers and foliage, learn spiral construction and tying, then adjust until the bouquet is balanced from every angle.
1. Welcome and choosing your materials
Over a coffee or a tea, you get to know the dried and preserved flowers and foliage on offer. Margot helps you imagine your colour harmony and your style.
You select your stems, sort them, clean the bottom of the stems and group them by category, ready to compose.
1. Welcome and choosing your materials
3. Finishing touches
A few touches to bring movement, one last look from every angle, and you're off with your bouquet.
Made entirely by hand, it keeps for several months, even years, with no water and no upkeep.
3. Finishing touches
In the workshop
“The aim isn't a standard bouquet, but a piece that looks like you.”
Margot, who runs the workshop
Margot took over Flowrette in 2019. Hers isn't the conventional florist's route: she learned from the florists on the team, by watching, trying and starting again. What she passes on in her workshops is exactly that approach: choosing each stem one by one, playing with textures, volumes and shades, and letting everyone compose a piece that suits them rather than copying a model.
Margot, who runs the workshop
The Flowrette workshop in Blain
Our workshop is at 26 rue des Frères Lumière in Blain, 30 minutes from Nantes. Easy parking on site. By bus, the Aléop network serves the centre of Blain, followed by a short walk.
Workshops are run in French, and in English on request. The venue is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.
The Flowrette workshop in Blain