Last week, I attended a fabulous floristry class at the new Interflora Flower School in London.  The course was called ‘Continental Christmas’ and it was led by florist David Ragg.

Above is the festive tablecentre which David demonstrated to us and below are photos of how he created it.

He explained that the ‘continental’ slant for the course comes from the fact that you use slightly different techniques when arranging the flowers.  For example, using pins and unusual sundries.

David started off with a soaked 14″ foam-based ring.  … Read more