Intro to Floral Design Terms

5. A floral designer who works for himself or herself and accepts jobs from several different floral shops.
8. Organization of professional floral designers that has rigorous membership policies and upholds high standards in the profession.
9. The owner or manager of a business that sells flowers, plants, and related supplies directly to consumers; the business.
13. The art and science of cultivating garden plants, include fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental, or decorative, plants.
14. A person who creates floral designs.
16. A floral business that focuses on one specialty area and does not offer a full range of products and services.
17. florist A florist that sells products and services to individual customers.
18. A retail florist that sells merchandise targeted to a specific category or area within the floral industry
19. Reproducing plants by dividing them, taking cuttings, or harvesting and growing seeds from parent plants

1. Grower who plants and harvests plant materials for the floriculture industry.
2. art and science of growing and marketing flowers and ornamental plants, and the designing and marketing of flower arrangements.
3. A floral business that offers a full range of both products and services to individual customers.
4. A florist that buys plants and other merchandise in bulk from growers and manufacturers and then sells them to retail florists.
6. Crossing two different species or subspecies of plants to obtain seeds that have characteristics of both.
7. Using only one kind of floral material or flower, except for foliage.
10. A person who opens and runs his or her own business.
11. A floral business that carries only cut flowers, either singly (by the stem) or in bunches.
12. A group or Nonprofit organization that predicts color trends for industries, products, and serivces. CMG forecasts trends from one to three years in advance.
15. Planned arrangement of plants in an indoor environment such as an office or hotel, or even a private home.