A general word which is used to portray the basic business terms for the selling, buying and creating new designs of flowers is “floristry”. The business basically involves flower care and handling, floral design or flower arranging, merchandising, and display and flower delivery. It can alsorefer to the cultivation of flowers as well as their creative arrangementin a very attractive way. The sources forthe supply of the flowers to the shops and the online storesare mostly the flower industries that have been developed in parallel to the florist businesses. The main outlets for the availability of the flowers are the shops/stores, online stores, supermarkets and the gardens specialized for the flower delivery. The floristry business has been established since many centuries because the flowers have been very fascinating to the people all over the world. Women have been using flowers as tokens of ornaments and also use them for keeping them in their homes since the beginning of any civilization.Hence, the establishment of this business did not occur in just a few years. It has been in the life of all human beings since the very beginning of life.

Floral Design or floral arts is the art of creating flower arrangements in different forms likevases, bouquets, baskets,bowls, and other containers. It has been afavoriteobject for the kings, queens and the princesses to have flowers arranged to their palaces and other special places like gardens.Ability to create a variety of floral designs such as wreaths, bouquets,corsages, permanent arrangements in gardens and other more complicated arrangements requires lots of creativity and interest in the arts and attraction to nature. Flowers are the main source of attraction in many different occasions. The occasions like weddings, engagements, cultural shows, variety shows in the schools and colleges, birthday celebrations,Valentine’s Day, decoration of the homes and streets for celebrating many festivals for people belonging to all cultures, heritages and religions involve the flower art as the main course of decorations.

Established designers and artists for this specific art convey their skill to students interested in floral design as hobby or even as a career. Many courses are generally available in through community colleges, via private vocational schools and academies and also through professional florist trade links.Many people belonging to different nations show interesttheir own style of floral arrangements. The famous styles of the decoration are “Ikebana”, “English garden” and “High style”known for their own unique style and importance among the people and are the specialty of the florists. Ikebana is the famous Japanese style which has a simple styleused mostly for personal use. English garden is a traditional English style floral designs which includes stems and foliages for their decoration and is famous for the formal occasions and celebrations. While, the High style describes modern and linear designs that highlights unique forms of both individual floral materials and of the designs themselves.All these designs are used in general for use in both the occasional and personal interests.