Maurice shares the skills you’ll learn and a list of the arrangements you’ll make in his session. He invites you to find your own voice and share what you’ve created with your community of fellow floral designers.
Welcome to the wonderful world of flowers! Maurice shares his accomplishments and his struggles—and he opens up about how he overcame obstacles to become one of the most sought-after floral designers and the host of two popular floral design shows.
Finding out what moves you is perhaps Maurice’s most important lesson. He challenges you to explore what truly influences you—good and bad, light and dark—so you can draw from the most powerful inspirations for your arrangements.
One of the best ways to elevate your arrangements is knowing where to find the freshest flowers and how to choose stems that will remain vibrant. Maurice gives you his best go-to tips for selecting the perfect stems.
Flowers can be messy! Having the right tool for the right job is especially valuable when it comes to floral design. Maurice tells you everything you’ll need to make processing, arranging, and cleaning up a breeze, so you can focus on making art.
The foundational skills Maurice learned arranging flowers in the classic pavé style helped him become the floral designer he is today. Maurice explains the various skills you’ll learn making this elegant and highly technical arrangement.
Adding to what you’ve already learned about processing flowers, follow along as Maurice teaches you in detail how to properly prepare your roses for this arrangement.
With all of your roses prepped and fully hydrated, you’re ready for Maurice to lead you step-by-step through the techniques needed to construct a pavé-style arrangement that can wow with just one kind of stem.
Now that you have what it takes to make a perfect pavé dome, Maurice shows you how to reimagine the classic and make it even better. Applying his own signature style, he demonstrates how to make a single-stem arrangement that breaks the mold. If you decide to try your own Bloom & Plume–style single-stem arrangement, be sure to share pictures with the community! (Remember to use a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.)
Now that you have a solid foundation of floral design skills, Maurice invites you to explore your creativity in a new setting: your next dinner party. Maurice asks some questions to help guide your design and gives you tips on choosing the right vase and flowers to set the mood perfectly.
At a dinner party, the focus of attention should be the food and the company—but this flower arrangement may just steal the show. Maurice teaches you how to make a long and low arrangement, a beautiful display of vibrant color that will inspire conversation, not block it. Maurice walks you through every step, from preparing your vessel and stems to establishing length, dimension, and balance in your design.
Working with flowers and foliage currently growing in your region is a powerful design tool—flowers are always the most beautiful when they’re in season. Maurice sets up what he’ll be teaching you next: how to assemble a wild-yet-refined lovers’ bouquet, and all the tips you’ll need to make a wreath for any occasion.
Maurice outlines the keys to successful hand-tied flowers, demonstrates the basic steps of construction using a single stem, and tells you what kinds of flowers are best for bouquets.
Work alongside Maurice as you learn how to build a beautiful bouquet in one hand. For this arrangement, prepping your stems is critical: Once you get started you’ll only have one hand to work with. Maurice will teach you how to get everything ready so you can focus on where to place your next flower.
Wreaths may be a winter staple, but any season can benefit from a little holiday cheer. Whether you’re using a grape vine or traditional noble fir, Maurice explains the importance of embellishments to make your wreath stand above the rest. He even shows you how to make your own from foraged branches.
With an assortment of balls, birds, and bling, you’re ready to get to work designing your masterpiece. You’re in good hands with Maurice, who prides himself on being a master embellisher. He shows you how to balance your design while adding movement, dimension, and drama.
You’ve got all the skills and techniques you need to design an assortment of beautiful arrangements. Now you need to focus all of your creative energy to design something truly original: a signature arrangement. Maurice encourages you to break free of your boundaries and create something big and bold. This is your time to shine, and Maurice will support you every step of the way. You’ve got this.
Maurice demonstrates what he does best: making a one-of-a-kind arrangement that is the epitome of natural opulence, right before your eyes. This is your opportunity to see Maurice’s creative process from start to finish. Watch carefully, because after he’s done teaching you how to make an arrangement fit for Beyoncé, it’s your turn.
Maurice reminds you of the basic foundations you’ve learned throughout his session to help you construct your masterpiece. He gives some helpful tips for shopping and planning your design. Then he challenges you to follow your instincts and keep working at it until you find your own vision in flowers.
Maurice shares his final thoughts, advice, and encouragement to help you on the journey of expressing your artistic vision with flowers. Whether you’re a hobbyist or a budding professional, there’s always more to learn, and the possibilities your creativity holds are limitless.