Floristry education and careers

Build a career in professional floristry.

Floristry is a skilled profession with routes for school leavers, career changers and people already working in the industry. Explore the job, compare training and apprenticeship routes, find places to learn and keep developing throughout your career.

Explore floristry as a career
StartUnderstand the profession and whether floristry is right for you.
TrainCompare qualifications, apprenticeships, colleges and training schools.
DevelopKeep building skills, experience and professional connections.

Where to begin

Choose the route that matches where you are now.

The BFA brings the main education and career pathways into one place, whether you are exploring floristry for the first time or looking for the next stage in your development.

Professional florist selecting flowers in a shop

Floristry as a career

Find out what professional floristry involves and what to consider before choosing it as a career.

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Floristry trade at New Covent Garden Flower Market

The wider profession

Learn inside an industry, not in isolation.

Floristry connects practical skill with design, flowers and plants, customer service, retail, weddings and events, business knowledge and a wider supply chain. Education is strongest when it connects learners with the professional world they are preparing to enter.

Read real florist stories

Find a place to learn

Colleges, schools and specialist learning.

Use the BFA education directory and specialist pages to explore different places and formats for floristry training.

Keep developing

Skills and opportunities beyond initial training.

Already working in floristry?

BFA membership adds business support, professional visibility, industry connections and representation alongside your continuing professional development.

Why join the BFA?

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