Welcome to Perth Floral Art Club! We are all about fun, friendship and flowers.

Perth Floral Art Club has been formed recently through the merger of Perth Flower Club and the Royal Horticultural Society of Perthshire Floral Art Group.

The new club kicked off in February this year, so there has never been a better time to join. If you’ve ever thought about trying your hand at flower arranging, or want to brush up your skills, then why not come along? We cater for all standards from complete beginners to competition winners!

If you’d like to know more or get in touch you can contact us at perthfloralartclub@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram.

Perth Flower Club was formed in 1962.

Having moved to Perth from Aberdeen Mrs Wyn Collett, a National Demonstrator found there was no club in Perth run under the National Association of Floral Arrangement Societies, NAFAS Guidelines. Along with a few friends they decided to open an afternoon club, Wyn as she liked to be called in the Chair and Dorothea, Lady Mansfield as Hon. President.

Under encouragement members began to take part in competitive floral art competitions starting in Local, Scottish, SAFAS (Scottish Association of Floral Arrangement Society), NAFAS and ultimately World via WAFAS.

With success came the invitations to set up Honorary exhibits in St Johns Kirk, Perth, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent and Glasgow Cathedral. Perth Flower Club were also invited to stage on behalf of SAFAS their exhibits at National, NAFAS competitions on more than one occasion.

Perth Flower Club has designed and exhibited floral designs for the Perth Festival of the Arts for over fifty years in the once Perth City Hall, St John’s Kirk, Perth Theatre and in more recent times Perth Concert Hall, all much admired by the festival audiences this arrangement is set to be continue by Perth Floral Art Club.

The Royal Horticultural Society of Perthshire was founded in 1805, the oldest of its kind in Scotland.

Annual Summer shows included traditional floristry classes: ladies corsages, dinner table arrangements, mixed flowers displayed in vases. Traditionally these classes were competed for by men, as most were nursery men, amateurs, and professional gardeners.

In 1958 the Secretary was tasked with providing a varied programme of winter lectures for club members. This programme included a lecture and demonstration from Mrs I Kier, a trained professional florist from Edinburgh, who had recently moved to Perth. The evening was such a success that it was decided to create a Floral Art sub section of Royal Horticultural Society of Perthshire.

More ladies began to participate in the modern Floral Art Classes at the show and the men dropped out of competing. Over the following 65 years as the club progressed it affiliated with SAFAS and NAFAS, enjoying a variety of demonstrators and their many varied demonstrations.