Our Upcoming IN PERSON Workshops, Courses & Retreats…
on Waiheke Island and in Europe or beyond!
All our in person workshop, course and retreat options are below…
whether you want to join us here in the Workroom on Waiheke Island and enrol for our beloved 3 or 5 week Florals 1&2 career course
OR you want us to design a BESPOKE WORKSHOP on the island just for you… or you and your friends…
or undertake our new FLORALS INTENSIVE Introduction or Refresher course on Waiheke
OR you want to attend one of our LUXE 3 or 5 day workshops on Waiheke- or in Italy or France or some other dream destination…
All the delectable options offered by The Wildflower School are BELOW… click the READ MORE buttons for details and costs- and make sure you watch this video taster of our new FLORALS 1 ONLINE course to give you some idea of what we get up to here in the workroom!
In Person workshops, courses and retreats…
Come and join us in our beautiful Workroom on Woodside Bay, Waiheke Island OR in Italy or France or some other dream international destination… you will be surrounded by an abundance of beautiful blooms and encouraged to grow your own floral aesthetic. Read about all our IN PERSON options below…
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Florals 1 & 2 2026
Join us for our renowned professional level career course in botanical styling and wedding flower design. This is an intensive and inspiring course for those who want to work in the floral world…
At the Wildflower School Workroom in Woodside Bay on beautiful Waiheke Island
AUTUMN 2026 - 30 March to 1 May (SOLD OUT!)
OR
SPRING 2026- 2 November to 4 December
NOTE: You may choose to enrol for the full 5 week Florals 1 & 2 course OR to opt for the 3 week Florals 1 only (or Florals 2 only) course
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FLORALS INTENSIVE Workshop
This collection of 4 full day workshops is an INTRODUCTION to floral design for beginners OR a REFRESHER for those wanting to upskill- and for our Florals 1 ONLINE graduates who would like some hands on guidance to refine what they learnt online.
Join us here on Waiheke Island for 1, 2, 3 or all 4 days to focus on creating hand tied bouquets, vessel arrangements, personal wedding flowers, urns and installations.
8-11 September 2026
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Bespoke Floral Workshops
Always dreamed of starting a journey into the floral world?
Come and join us in our beautiful Workroom on Waiheke Island for a luxe botanical styling experience.
We can design a One on One or Small Group Workshop to help make your floral dream come true…
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La DOLCE VITA Workshop
We are off to Italy again- in June 2026!
We have already had so much interest that we are nearly sold out… so we have now released dates for a second workshop…
Hope you can join us for five days of flowers, watercolours, good company, food and wine in an idyllic valley of olive groves in Umbria, Italy. Stay in a beautifully renovastone borgo (or ancient hamlet), pick blooms at a local small flower farm and explore local hilltop towns, create beautiful painterly bouquets and arrangements- and then re-create them in watercolours, relax by the pool and gaze at our peaceful valley view…
18 - 23 June 2026 (nearly sold out- be quick!!)
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24-29 June 2026
SOLD OUT!
WATCH THIS SPACE for details of our next European retreat… details soon for 2027