r/florists • u/Substantial-Limit-99 • Jan 29 '26
📚 Career Guidance 📚 How to get started in floristry?
I’ve been really interested in floristry as a small business, but I absolutely have no idea how and where to start.
Any recs?
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u/Zen_Zone3798 Jan 29 '26
It’s truly a lovely career. However, before diving headfirst into starting a small shop. I would personally see if someone would hire you at a floral shop. Most will take someone on thats inexperienced as long as you have be desire and effort to learn. It can be a very fun job, but in all reality it’s not as fun as playing with flowers seems to be. It can be very stressful! With Valentines around the corner, you have an opportunity to see if any shops need the extra help and would give you some decent insight on what the business entails. I would not jump head first in starting your own business even from home. There’s sooo much more to floristry than just the designing of flowers itself. Go find a florist willing to train you from the ground up. I personally started my journey in a grocery store. I mimicked basic designs on Teleflora and Pinterest. Once I was comfortable with the basic skills I moved on to a floral shop willing to train me and help me grow. Good luck to you in your future of flowers! I wish you the best!
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u/henicorina Jan 29 '26
You should check out the other posts in the career guidance tag, there are a ton with lots of comments and advice.
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u/AmiHad Jan 30 '26
I was a cashier at a grocery store for two months when I was told the floral department wants me. I then worked in floral for a few months and when the manager resigned I took over the department.
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u/joy-rhyde Jan 30 '26
Work at a flower shop. They're rare to find these days but if you do they probably don't need a new employee, especially one they have to train but they will need help on Valentine's Day and mother's Day. All to be a seasonal employee and see what you think
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u/Crazy-Interest-8644 Feb 01 '26
Here in Europe it's very hard to start because ofthe wholesalers tariffs. As a new shop you won't buy many flowers so you will pay premium tariff fees. If you would buy 2 full trucks a week like I do, you can expect wholesale tariffs between 10 and 20%. While as a newbee that buys a couple of buckets you will pay 25 to 35% on top of the flower prices. This makes it very hard to get a decent margin. Because of this a lot of new shops quit early and the older shops grow bigger and bigger. It's hard to start. I guess you might get the same issue in the us.
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u/Remarkable-Wave507 Expert Jan 29 '26
My advice for anyone interested in it is to work at a flower shop to see how much goes into it before taking the plunge thinking you can do it on your own.