Below you will find listed all AIFD approved Education Partners, as well as approved State Floral Association education providers. Each student is responsible for contacting these institutions to obtain details such as course costs, timeframes, length, difficulty level, etc. It is also each student’s responsibility to be sure the school they attend is offering their students the opportunity to be awarded with AIFD’s CFD® (Certified Floral Designer) designation. More details about the CFD program can be found here.

Become an Education Partner:

If you are interested in becoming an AIFD® Education Partner, please go to AIFD’s Education Partners page and complete the application form. It may take up to thirty days for your school to be approved by the appropriate committee and notified.

Become an approved State Floral Association Education Provider:

If your State Certification program is interested in being listed as a Floral Association Education Provider, please download the Application Form and return it to AIFD Headquarters for approval. It may take up to thirty days for your organization to be approved by the appropriate committee and notified.

Benefits of being an AIFD Education Partner or Approved State Floral Association Education Provider:

Having your school or certification program approved by AIFD as an Education Partner or Floral Association Education Provider means you will receive the benefit of being listed on the AIFD website, in the AIFD printed directory, as well as the valuable opportunity to award your students the AIFD nationally recognized Certified Floral Designer (CFD®) designation! For more details on the CFD program offered to students who complete courses at AIFD approved Education Providers, please visit this page.

Any prospective AIFD member looking to obtain floral design education will be directed to visit these lists and your organizations will directly benefit from this exposure.

Education Partners – Floral Design Schools

  • Academy of Floral Art, UK
    Tina Parkes AIFD, CFD and Julie Collins
    Unit 8 Dunchideock Barton
    Dunchideock, Exeter, EX2 9UA
    Tel: 00441392 834893
    Email: Julie@academyoffloralart.com
    An Floristry Academy offering a full range of professional floristry qualifications from beginners to British masters.
  • Aimi Floral Designers
    Atsuko Aimi AIFD, CFD
    3731 Kurihara
    Tsukuba City Ibaraki, 305-0001
    Japan
    Tel: 81-90-2634-2654
    Fax: 81-29-857-6456
    Email: info@shokubutu-kobo.com
    This school is a new style’s flower school, which is also in correspondence with Internet courses.
  • Anne Arundel Community College
    Carol L. Cassidy
    101 College Parkway
    Arnold, MD 21012
    Tel: 410-777-AACC (2222)
    Fax: 410-777-2822
    Email: ccassidy1@aacc.edu
    Anne Arundel Community College offers a comprehensive Floral Design Certificate program taught by AIFD Accredited Instructors. This hands-on program provides classes for students from beginners to professionals.
  • Benz School of Floral Design
    Taylor Paine
    Dept. of Horticulture Science 2133
    College Station, TX 77843
    Tel: (979) 845-1699
    Fax: (979) 845-0627
    Email: t-paine@tamu.edu
    The Benz School teaches floral design, both as the basis of retail floristry, and as floral art-incorporating proper management and care and handling techniques.
  • Dr. D School of Floristry
    Jenny Thomasson
    9200 John W Carpenter Hwy
    Dallas, TX 75247
    Tel: (214) 522-9911
    Fax: N/A
    Email: Jennytfloristry@gmail.com
    The DRD Institute of Floristry teaches beginning, intermediate, and advanced single-night courses through the Dr Delphinium Flower School, and advanced multi-day workshops with Jenny T Floristry.
  • Fioriology
    Claudia Saldaña León AIFD, CFD
    Av. Lazaro Cardenas Zapopan
    Jalisco, Mexico 45020
    Tel: (55) 3331 106609
    Email: asistente@claudiasaldana.com
    Fioriology provides a one year international floral education in Latin America to aid in the preparation for enhanced career skill level and certification in floral design.
  • Fiorissima Internacional
    Elisabeth Cristina Nuñes AIFD, CFD
    Circunvalación Sur 46
    Las Fuentes
    Guadalajara
    Jalisco/Mexico
    Zip 45070
    Tel:(33) 38559010
    Email: gyepez@fiorissimainternacional.com
    WORKSHOPS OFFERED:     (contact school directly for more details)
    Training Programs to AIFD by Fiorissima International
  • Floral Design Institute
    Leanne Kesler AIFD, CFD, PFCI
    1138 NW 17th Avenue
    Portland, OR 97209
    Tel: (800) 819-8089
    Fax: (503) 274-0184
    E-mail: leanne@floraldesigninstitute.com
    Licensed career training, seminars, design classes, video training tapes and distance learning programs for the beginner, the experienced professional and everyone who loves flowers.
    WORKSHOPS OFFERED:    (contact school directly for more details)
    Advanced Floral Design
    Designing for Competition and Evaluation
  • Institut de Artflor
    Man Ling Iris Ching
    Room B, 11/F Sing Sung Factory Bldg.
    495 Castle Peak Road
    Kowloon, Hong Kong
    Tel: 852 2785 7088
    Fax: 852 2959 2235
    Email: info@idartflor.com
    Full service florist, organizing floral design training courses, exhibition, and show in Hong Kong and China. Please visit our website: www.idartflor.com.
  • J-Florist School
    Ok-kyung (Jessica) Jang AIFD, CFD
    (3rd fl, Tae-eun B/D) Bang-bae St. 118 Seocho-gu
    Seoul, 137-064
    South Korea
    Tel: 82.2.3477.1488
    Fax: 82.2.595.0682
    Email: jflos@naver.com
  • Korea Garden & Floral Design School
    Eun Ok Jang
    Junin B/D 601, Baumoe-ro 37-gil, Seocho-gu
    Seoul, 137-888
    South Korea
    Tel: 82-2-529-1551
    Fax: 82-2-6008-6025
  • Nobleman School of Floral Design
    Anson Low AIFD, CFD
    Blk 10, North Bridge Rd., #02-5107
    Singapore 190010
    Tel: (656) 296-3977
    Fax: (656) 291-3192
    E-mail: info@noblemanschool.com.sg
    WORKSHOPS OFFERED:     (contact school directly for more details)
    CFD/AIFD Preparation Course (Intensive)
    CFD/AIFD Hands-On Workshop (Intensive)
    NSFD Certificate in Professional Design
    NSFD American Floral Design Course
  • Palmer School of Floral Design/Palmer Flowers
    Angela Palmer AIFD, CFD
    3710 Mitchell Drive
    Fort Collins, CO 80525
    Tel: (970) 207-9476
    E-mail: info@psfd.net
    WORKSHOPS OFFERED: (contact school directly for more details)
    Advanced Floral Design
    Class V
    Competition and Evaluation
    Evaluation Class
  • Teleflora Education Center
    Marie Ackerman AIFD, CFD, PFCI, AAF
    3737 NW 34th Street
    Oklahoma City, OK 73112
    Tel: (800) 456-7890
    Fax: (405) 943-1337
    E-mail: mackerman@teleflora.com
    WORKSHOPS OFFERED: (contact school directly for more details)
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  • The New York Botanical Garden
    Duncan Himmelman AIFD, CFD
    200th St. & Kazimiroff Blvd.
    Bronx, NY 10458-5126
    Tel: (718) 817-8747
    Fax: (718) 817-8666
    E-mail: conted@nybg.org
  • The School of Floral Arts LLC
    Maggie Binet AIFD, CPF, CFD, PFCI
    4800 Dahlia Street
    Denver, CO 80216
    Tel: 303-888-0304
    Fax: 303-455-8122
    E-mail: Maggie@theschooloffloralarts.com
    Your AIFD and CFD evaluation – apply the Elements and Principles of Design to create the required floral compositions. Practice the various techniques (such as basing, binding, shadowing, etc.) to accomplish proficiency using your own creative flair. You will learn to see your designs as an evaluator sees them from an AIFD Certified Evaluator on staff
  • Washington Flower School
    Jeanne Ha AIFD, CFD
    6921 Laurel Ave
    Takoma Park, MD 20912
    Tel: (301) 270-1848
    Fax: (301) 270-1849
    Email: Jeanne@parkflorist.us
    The Nation’s Capital, Washington Metro Area’s only flower school, founded by Jeanne Ha, AIFD CFD and David Shover, AIFD CFD AAF PFCI. Workshops and classes are designed for all different levels of students but operated entirely with hands-on practices. We teach principles and elements of floral designs, techniques and focus on building strong design confidence.

State Floral Association Education Providers

SAIFD Chapters

AIFD Student Chapters are established at certain recognized institutions of higher learning with a two-year associate degree (or higher) in horticulture, floriculture, agriculture or fine arts, and where floral design is taught.

For a list of Student Chapters of AIFD colleges and universities please click here.

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