The 'Floral Rituals' trend for 2010 is so fashionable, so colourful, and so unforgettable.
We’ve selected the trendiest blooms for this year and come up with some great ideas for you to try and combine them together.
Gold – everyday elegance
Treasured objects deserve to be on display – and what better way to show them off, than adorning them with a few choice cut blooms? This wine-coloured carnation, coupled with the sunshine-yellow alstroemeria with its red streaks, complement the gold tones of this pot perfectly. Loosely placing the lid on top helps create the illusion of abundance, as if the flowers are spilling from the container.
The fuzzy fronds of maroon kangaroo paw and the yellow alstroemeria stem laid out beside the pot pick out the accents of the colour scheme.
If you like displaying flowers out of water, don’t worry – these flowers will last will out of water for a special all-day occasion.
Copper – most fun
Create your own style of arrangement with a medley of different flowers and colours – anything goes! The painted copper spot on the glossy green monstera leaf adds even more drama. Hanging heliconia arches over a display of burnt-orange lilies, royal-purple vanda, the spikes of deep-red bromeliads, orange leucospermum and gloriosa, and alstroemeria in tones to suit the mixture of colours. So impressive, this display has its own special chair to sit on.
Push the foliage into soaked florists' foam first, then add in the tall spikes at the back, filling in the front with shorter flowers to finish off.
Boat – for special occasions
Take a long, boat-like container and place florists’ foam inside.
Poke four wiggles of bark into the foam, and then follow with four red alstroemeria. Some can be a little bit taller than others.
Add in a shorter level: four carnations in a rough line, then some red arcs of euphorbia fulgens, and four fuzzy kangaroo paw.
Along the bottom, add some miniature ornamental pineapples and spiny red leucospermum.
Add in cones, pods or spotty leucadendron to fill in any gaps. Soft cocoanut husk completes the tropical theme.
