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Weronika Walczak with Gregor Lersch at the end of the workshops

Workshops with Gregor Lersch in Turza Śląska

Branżowe Centrum Umiejętności — Floristry, Turza Śląska Events

Two days of workshops with Gregor Lersch, one of the most important florists in contemporary Europe, at the Branżowe Centrum Umiejętności in Turza Śląska: 38 participants, four pieces and over a thousand plants.

On 29 and 30 September 2026 I attended workshops with Gregor Lersch at the Branżowe Centrum Umiejętności in Turza Śląska — a German master florist, teacher and author who in 1978 became the first German to win the Europacup in Rome. For decades he has helped shape the language of contemporary floral design, and he still teaches how to read plant, form and space as a single process. On 1 October he closed the meeting with an evening show by candlelight.

In numbers: 38 participants, four pieces, over a thousand plants and flowers, two days of workshops and countless ideas. We talked mostly about the importance of proportion — even when the conversation turned to animals or design. The conclusion is simple: good proportions hold most of the secret of success.

In the photos: Gregor Lersch at work and at the flip chart with his sketches, branch structures with suspended plants, my own workshop piece — an autumn arrangement of cymbidium, callas, chrysanthemums and Virginia creeper on a wire mesh — and the evening show.

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Gregor Lersch drilling a hole in a wooden block, the base for a branch structureGregor Lersch at a flip chart with sketches of arrangementsGregor Lersch at the workshop table next to a branch structure with suspended stemsGregor Lersch behind a branch structure hung with twine-wrapped stems, flowers and a bromeliad kokedamaA finished branch structure with suspended plants, orchids and a succulent next to a sketch on the flip chartWeronika Walczak's own workshop piece — a horizontal arrangement on a concrete block with cymbidium, callas, chrysanthemums and Virginia creeper leavesAn arrangement on a wire mesh supported by wooden blocks, with yellow orchids and callasClose-up of yellow cymbidium orchids, red Virginia creeper leaves and dark blue berriesWeronika Walczak's arrangement on a concrete block by a dark façade, with a cascade of callas falling onto the pavingDetail: a yellow chrysanthemum, Virginia creeper leaves and dark blue berries on a wire meshAn autumn arrangement of cymbidium, calla and Virginia creeper berries in the sunlightClose-up of yellow and burgundy orchids on a wire structureWeronika Walczak with Gregor Lersch at the end of the workshopsThe evening show by candlelight in the hall of the Branżowe Centrum UmiejętnościGregor Lersch on stage by a wreath with red candlesGregor Lersch next to a tall arrangement with candles in a twig basket on a tripodGregor Lersch on stage next to a hanging arrangement of carnations and umbellifers

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