Kit Wertz

Teaches at Flower Duet

Like her sis­ter, Kit had a love of flow­ers from an early age thanks to the lovely flow­ers her mother grew every sum­mer in the back­yard. Dur­ing col­lege, Kit worked as a peren­nial plant spe­cial­ist at a local nusery and after grad­u­at­ing from James Madi­son Uni­ver­sity with a bachelor’s degree in Jour­nal­ism, Kit had the oppor­tu­nity to work in The Nether­lands. Kit became pas­sion­ate about flo­ral design after liv­ing among the flower-loving Dutch and after she cre­ated her own wed­ding flow­ers (with Casey’s help) for her wed­ding in 1997. Kit fell in love with the Los Ange­les Flo­ral Dis­trict and wanted to share that pas­sion for flow­ers with her friends.
After tak­ing friends down to the mart and show­ing them how to cre­ate flower designs, the con­cept of Flower Duet took shape. By teach­ing peo­ple how to design flow­ers in their own homes in a flower party atmos­phere, Flower Duet was able to grow through refer­rals for wed­dings and spe­cial event flowers.
Kit’s back­ground is in photo jour­nal­ism, so her cre­ative eye is a plus when try­ing a new flo­ral design idea.  While work­ing as an Inter­net mar­ket­ing expert for com­pa­nies like Office Depot and Toy­ota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Kit honed her flo­ral design skills tak­ing classes and work­shops around South­ern California.