Explore the world of Hollywood through flowers
Inspired by Hollywood
For 2025 flower arranging classes at Flower Duet, it’s time to be inspired by classic films, modern movies, and favorite TV shows in a year full of Hollywood inspiration through flowers with the dynamic floral sister duo from Flower Duet. We’ll feature a new flower design, a featured flower, and movie or TV show inspiration eachmonth.
In the past few years, we’ve featured flower classes based on traveling around the world in flowers and we thought it was time to switch to new ways to explore the flower universe. What better way than to go into the world of cinema and television? There are so many movies and shows with gorgeous floral backdrops (Bridgerton), themes (The Secret Garden), and even ones about florists (Bed of Roses).
We hope you’ll join us in 2025 as we dive into the pretend and very often beautiful world of make-believe — Hollywood floralstyle!
January Classes Feature Two Themes
Starting in January, we’ll go to the land of classic Hollywood with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and the movie Casablanca and we’ll get wintery with inspiration from the movie Frozen. The Casablanca class will feature the lovely and fragrant Casa Blanca Lily and Playa Blanca Roses along with clean-lined foliage. The Frozen class will be all about how to achieve a frosty look on a winter white floral design that will feature hydrangea, roses and green trick dianthus.
February classes Feature Tulips
In February, we’ll get inspired by tulips! We’ll go back in time to the famous movie called Gold Diggers of Broadway where the song Tiptoe Through the Tulips debuted! When Casey and I were growing up, we can remember seeing repeats of Tiny Tim on Johnny Carson singing that song. I thought he brought it into the world. I had no idea it came from a movie from 1929 Hollywood. In class, we’ll feature tulips with other flowers in a glass vase design and teach students all the ways that tulips dance in thevase.
March Features Cherry Blossoms from “Shōgun” and “Memoirs of a Geisha”
March will bring us to Japan and the beautiful and dramatic worlds of the new TV series Shōgun and the classic story Memoirs of a Geisha. Cherry blossoms feature in the settings and are very symbolic in Japanese culture. In class, we’ll show students how to work with Cherry Blossom stems and other woody stems. Students will learn to combine Cherry Blossoms with other suitable spring blooms in a mixed vase design!
April Offers Two Completely Different Themes and Classes
In April, we’ll explore the worlds of movies and books with two differently themed classes on the sameday.
The morning class in April will take inspiration from a 1996 romantic movie starring Christian Slater as a florist called Bed of Roses featuring lovely lavenderroses.
In the afternoon class, we are inspired by a fun actress of our day, Brooke Shields and another star we love who played James Bond, too, Timothy Dalton. Shields starred in movie as the beloved comic strip reporter from the 1940s, Brenda Starr. Orchids figure in the movie and so, we’ll take our inspiration from the era where orchids were popular flowers to give to women as corsages — at least in the movies! Both classes in April will explore the origin of the flowers we feature from color to form to texture and we’ll work in other spring flowers like anemones, hyacinth and bupleurum. Each class will have a completely different design and technique.
May is for Mothers
Just like in 2024, we are happy to offer a workshop the day before Mother’s Day for everyone to come on out and make a hand-tied bouquet. For the movie inspiration, we look to the heartfelt ode to mothers that is Gary Marshall’s Mother’s Day. We will work with Ranunculus, roses, and other fabulous “May flowers” for this lush hand-tied bouquet.
June is for Romance & Bridgerton Flowers
Wow…three seasons of the hit TV show Bridgerton wrapped up and we love that the production designer considers flowers like a character in the show. Each episode has a theme and the flowers are an intricate part of thattheme.
Will Hughes-Jones, production designer on Season Two of “Bridgerton,”previously told the Hollywood Reporterthat flowers are “a very strong character in their own right within theshow.”
“There’s one particular scene where Penelopeis wearing a bright yellow dress, and we did a whole wall of bright yellow flowers. So she literally became a wallflower,” hesaid.
Bridgerton-inspired classes will star Peonies! What more is there tosay?
July is Tropical Month and a Trip to 1970s PalmBeach
Last year, we did a few corporate events with a Palm Royale theme inspired by the hit TV show starring SNL alum Kristen Wigg and comedy legend Carol Burnett. Every show is a feast for the eyes…the vintage fashion, perfect hair, gorgeous colors, and of course, tropical flowers and foliage.
For this class, we’ll work with orchids, ginger, anthurium, and tropical foliage to create a lush design that could fit in onset!
August is Under the Tuscan Sun
Diane Lane is one of our favorite actresses starting when she appeared in the cult classic Streets of Fire. But, this class about a movie she made almost 20 years later called Under the Tuscan Sunwhich was also adapted from a book of the same name. In 2024, we were asked to build a floral them around this book and movie and we featured lots of olive branches, roses, rosemary and other soft delicate flowers.
What we really wanted to add to the mix were lovely sunflowers! So, in this class, that’s what we’ll do! We’ll take inspiration from the movie (and the poster) and show the class how to mix sunflowers with other summer flowers in a vase. These flowers are tricky because their stems bend. This can make it difficult to design withthem.
September Journeys into The Secret Garden and Dahlias
Which is your favorite version of the movie titled “The Secret Garden?” Each movie features gorgeous gardens in all states of bloom, so our class will feature lots of late summer flowers in an explosion of color and texture in a full vase design.
Is it the one that Casey remembers that is black and white, but when the main character discovers the garden, the film turns vivid Technicolor? Stars Margaret O’Brien — The Secret Garden —1949
Or do you prefer a more recent version starring Downton Abbey alumna Maggie Smith? — The Secret Garden —1993
For fans of Pride and Prejudice (PBS version), there’s also one with Colin Firth! — The Secret Garden —2020
All movies are fabulous versions of this classic tale of friendship and love. We’ll enjoy teaching our students how to design with a variety flowers including fabulous Dahlias in this late summer floral design class!
October is full of color with inspiration from Coco and Spectre
Okay, we are sure you might be wondering how on earth a James Bond movie got into this list of flower class themes. As long-time fans of 007, we can’t help but admire some of the fabulous production themes of the opening of the movie Spectre and its rendition of a Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico City. We are following that them with the inclusion of Disney’s Coco which also focuses on the Day of the Dead or Día de los Muertos.
What both of these movies have in common beyond the Day of the Dead theme are Marigolds! We love these fragrant and traditional flowers. They are long lasting in a vase, look fabulous mixed with with other flowers, are perfect for warm fall celebrations in Southern California and we can get lots of locally grown flowers for this class! We’ll add protea, roses and more to this mixed vase to help you celebrate fall and if you choose, your loved ones aswell!
November is Warm despite The BigChill
While it does get a little chilly in the fall, we’ll feature lots of warm colored flowers in this class inspired by the friendship movie The Big Chill. We were too young to understand it when it came out but we loved the soundtrack! Since it takes place in the fall and it’s about gathering together over meals, we thought it would make a good theme for Thanksgiving.
In the flower Thanksgiving Centerpiece class, we’ll marry classic fall colors using leaves, foliage, roses, orchids and more for your Thanksgiving tables.
December Holidays HeatUp
By the time December is upon use, the oranges of fall turn hotter into the reds of the holidays. We’ll work with evergreens, fir, cedar and classic red holiday flowers like roses, berries and highlight with light and fluffy white flowers to mimic snowy skies. For our movie, we’ll cozy up with two versions of the same story from different eras but with the same message. Cary Grant in The Bishop’s Wife and Whitney Huston in The Preacher’s Wife.
Both are set against a Christmas backdrop with a guardian angel in thewings.