Florist is the business which deals in the production, styling and the sale of flowers. People involved in this trade has lot of duties to perform all related to flowers such as floral designs, arranging, merchandising, displaying and delivering them. Wholesale traders do sell their flowers for professional supplies, they sell them in bulks. Retailers on the other hand work with fresh flowers and all the other services and products to flowers to customers.
Many florist produce their own flowers, they have big flower gardens on farms and land. Some people with small business do this in the garden of their house. On the other hand there are many who buy them from other who grows them for business. These are those who sell them in retail. People who sell raw material for the flowers have come from cut flower industry. One can see these shops almost everywhere, in malls hotels, supermarkets, garden supply store and even filling station also sell flowers. Online stores are the biggest outlets for flowers.
Floral art is one in which people arrange and design them in different styles and designs in vases, bowls, baskets, and other containers making bouquets is also the job of this floral artist and for other purposes, this is the job of the person with mind blowing artistic ideas. They make bouquets with cut flowers, herbs, ornamental grasses, foliages and other plants. Florist or floral designers are being considered same but in fact they are different, florist is a person who deal in and sell the flowers, but the floral designer is who change the look or the presentation of the flowers. It is very much possible for person to be a florist and design and arrange them himself, and it is also possible for a designer to own a shop too.
A florist should have idea about the demands of the customers, his needs and expectations. He should also know about all the new and updated types of designs and arrangement and also what is trendy and fashionable. It is also his responsibility to get different designs made of flowers such as corsages, wreaths, boutonnières/’buttonholes,’ bouquets, and permanent arrangement. If a person thing that it is a easy job then he is wrong, working with flower is rather a very complicated business, it require lot of talent knowledge about gardening, creative ideas and lot of consideration, one will have to pay attention to small things like which flower will suit with which one and how to arrange the colors so they do not look mismatched. It is also a risky business, because flower are very fragile and delicate so they need care and can be damaged with very small things.