Getting Started
Be introduced to the key steps to start your floristry business
The course content will introduce you to these key requirements:
Why start a floristry business?
Legal Requirements
Lifestyle Match
The Market
Business Structure
Product Range
Launch Campaigns
Website, Marketing & Advertising Campaigns
Suppliers
Financials
Planning & Creative
Contribution
Yvette Timmins has been in the floristry industry for 30+ years!
From casual employee to apprentice to senior florist, manager, teacher and now principal founder and director at Bloom College.
At age 26 Yvette founded her first floristry business from scratch and successfully sold it 5 years later. Since founding Bloom College flower school Yvette and her team continue to witness the success of so many graduates. 🎓
Yvette now wants to share her lessons in the flower business and show you what’s required in order for you to feel the success you deserve.
During the course you will hear Yvette's story of making the mistake, that being a great florist does not necessarily mean you will automatically be a great business owner!
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more about the teacher
Yvette Timmins has covered everything in Floristry from Casual Florist Assistant to Apprentice, Senior Florist, Florist shop manager, Florist Shop Owner, Floristry teacher and Principal of her school, Bloom College she founded in 2013. Yvette was a founding director and board member of Australia’s peak national body, Flower Industry Australia. Yvette is also a co-founder of the charity Floral acts of kindness, which was set up by Bloom College graduate Dr Isabelle De Solier. The charity delivers flower bouquets to nursing homes and hospitals. It could be said that Yvette’s passion and skill for working with flowers is in her blood. Yvette’s Grandmother, Great Aunt and Great Grandmother were all florists. Yet Yvette will tell you that arranging flowers is not an inherited special skill reserved for only a few, but rather is available to everyone. Yvette believes we are all born with an innate sense of creativity and a need to connect with nature. Arranging flowers feeds both of those human needs simultaneously; the only requirement, she says, is to enable the process by getting our own inner negative self-talk and criticism out of the way. Creating a comfortable and nurturing environment allows our creativity to flow.The ongoing positive flow on effects that Yvette has witnessed first hand over her 30+ years in the industry include, but is not limited to, a decrease in feelings of anxiety and depression. Yvette is passionate about many causes, yet possibly the highest on the list is the need for greater opportunity to connect with nature and our creativity for the purpose of generating positive effects on our mental health. It is this reason Yvette has developed Bloom College courses online and via the App to ensure people are not restricted by location or mental or physical ability.
Awards & Qualifications include;
Victorian Florist of the Year – Junior - 1994 & 1995
Australian Florist of the Year – Junior – 1994 & 1995
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show – Silver 1997
ABC Gardening Australia Award – Bronze 2003
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show – Bronze 2017
Australian Floristry Certificate III & IV
Business Certificate IV