Interflora flowers

Flower trend Ideas for 2010

We’ve selected the trendiest blooms for this year and come up with some great 2010 trends ideas for you to try.

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? A wine-coloured carnation, coupled with sunshine-yellow alstroemeria with its red streaks, complement the gold tones 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 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 and a classic copper pot. The painted copper spot on the glossy green monstera leaf brings to whole piece together beautifully. 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.

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.

The 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, spotty leucadendron or soft coconut husk to fill in any gaps and complete the tropical theme.