2 days · weekend Max 8 students All levels

Dried flower styling:
two days on pieces
that last for years

Preserved and dried material for interiors, venues and retail. Stabilisation, dye work, texture pairing and the care card that keeps a piece alive for three years. AU$340.

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Dried arrangement of lunaria, protea and grasses in a stone vessel

PriceAU$340
FormatSat + Sun, 10:00–15:00
Studio9/131 Gouger St

Wall of dried botanicals sorted by tone on the studio shelf

The preservation shelf. Half of this is our own experiments.

The workshop

Floristry without the expiry date

Restaurants, offices and hotels want botanical work that does not die on them. Dried and stabilised material is its own craft: different mechanics, different palette, different client conversation, and a price per piece that makes fresh-flower people blink.

Across the weekend you build two interior-scale pieces, learn the glycerine and silica processes, and write the care card that goes with a three-year installation.

Who it suits

Interior stylistsHoReCa clients
Retail floristsadd a durable line
Home craftersone good weekend

What we cover

The weekend programme

Saturday is process, Sunday is a full interior piece.

Saturday

Preservation science

Glycerine stabilisation, silica-gel drying, bleaching and dyeing. What each process does to texture and colour, and which stems survive which treatment.

Texture library

Lunaria, lagurus, protea, pampas: the four workhorses and how to read their grade.

Interior scale

Potted large-scale pieces and green-wall thinking for offices and venues.

The 3-year card

Dust management, UV position and the care card clients photograph and keep.

Quoting durability

A three-year piece is not priced like a bouquet. We do the maths on a real brief.

From the bench

Dried work in the wild

Shot in our cyclorama corner

Dried lunaria and grass piece in a restaurant entry — Restaurant entry · year 2

Preserved moss and branch wall section — Moss wall · office

Bleached protea arrangement on a retail counter — Retail counter · protea

Textural study of four dried materials — Texture study · 4 species

The practical bits

Everything is included

Stock, tools, wrap, tea and the good playlist. You bring closed shoes and a phone for portfolio shots.

FormatSat + Sun 10:00–15:00
Materialdried + stabilised stock
You leave with2 interior pieces
Deposit to bookAU$80

In the price

All dried and preserved stock
Vessels and mounting materials
Process recipe cards to keep
Care-card template for clients
Both pieces photographed

Your seat

AU$340Sat + Sun, 10:00–15:00 · 14-day refund window

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Before you book

Three things people ask

Anything else, the curator answers on the contacts page within 15 minutes in studio hours.

Different maths. Material costs more upfront but nothing dies in the coolroom, and a single restaurant install can bill for months of service checks. We run the real numbers on Sunday.

You can, and we show you where it works: dried skeleton, fresh accents swapped weekly. Subscription clients love that model because the piece evolves.

With the care card followed, yes. Our oldest tracked install is a restaurant piece from 2023 that still gets photographed by guests, which is the only KPI that matters to the owner.

Next weekend: 14–15 March

Six seats. Bring a vessel you like or use ours.

2 days · weekend Adelaide studio

Dried flower styling: two days on pieces that last for years