Danish florist Dan Xavier has been working with flowers as a freelancer since his florist exam in 2009 and has been running his flower store Fuldt Flor in Skanderborg; a small town in Denmark's central Jutland lake district, as a self-employed entrepreneur for the past few years. In addition to being a florist, Dan is also a teacher at one of the two schools Denmark has for florists.As a floral designer, Dan enjoys working with shapes and structures and then constructing the whole into ephemeral works. He emphasizes the importance of actually showing the entire flower - including stem and leaf.