Bloomstall Flower Blog - Everything Flowers - Florist in Columbia, Tennessee — floristry

A florist is not merely someone who sells flowers and plants as the Merriam-Webster dictionary states.  A florist is a flower designer, even a floral artist.  A florist purchases flowers from floral wholesalers and local growers and then designs and creates floral arrangements.  Independent florists create their own unique designs while florists in a network like FTD or Teleflora copy designs that the network approves. It isn't very often that a full time, brick and mortar florist is also a flower grower.  There just simply isn't enough time to do both jobs well. Flower farming is a full time just...

Here are the most often asked questions about floristry, according to Google search. The answers given below are from our own experience running a flower shop in Columbia, Tennessee.   Do florists make a lot of money? Probably not as much as you think. While flowers can be expensive, the florist is the last person in the supply chain before you receive flowers. There are growers, flower markets, shippers, wholesalers and distributors that all tack on their fees before a florist ever marks up those flowers to sell to you. Florists also incur high electric bills to run floral coolers,...