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Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who gave me their in-put for my assessment and assignement. If I ever suss how to post a photo I will. My tutor was so pleased with me that the head of department read my assignement & looked at my design & they have asked me to join the degree course next year. I began this City & Guilds course in September, having done nothing floristry wise prior to this. It just happened that the course runs on a Thursday which is my day off work, so I decided to give it a go. I am really chuffed that they think I'm good enough for degree course!!

Congratulations and well done go for it you will get there

Good for you Hells, get as much under your belt as you can and if you can slide into this business near the top of the food chain you won't need to wash too many buckets....which is what i have to do as i haven't got anyone below me to do it....the loneliness of the long distance florist!

congratulations.

I´m sorry, have to ask. What´s a degree course? Don´t know have your school system work overthere.

Congratulations Hells

Must ask, what was the assignment, I'm doing the City & Guilds at the mo so will be getting this to do I would imagine. We've had 5 practical assessments so far and I seem to be getting better with each one as my confidence grows.

Congratulations from Dk. Do you have pictures? It would be great to see it in our new gallery, which is bye the way,a very good thing to have here at the forum

A brief description of the degree course is... a creative course using a variety of design aspects including traditional, period, modern and experimental constructions. Incorporated within these designs are the latest trends in manipulation of both fresh and artificial plant material & experimental designs using modern decorative accessories. The course includes business, marketing in relation to the floral industry, photography, special event management etc!

Sounds like you are doing a different city and guilds to me as our course only entails 3 assessments. For each assessment we have to complete an accompanying assignement, saying where our inspiration came from, investigating current trends etc.

thanks for your good wishes xxx

Wow, I didn't think there were so many different courses for floristry. We do no written work for assessments but have to do assignments on different things ie Colour Wheel, Georgian Times, Light & Colour and many more I wouldn't wonder. We also have an exam in June for learning 30 flowers/10 foliages, botanical and common name, stem structure and availability.