Bring your home to life with some floral inspiration...

 We're now buying flowers more often for ourselves: to cheer ourselves up, to express our creativity, or just because it’s Tuesday. We also find from our surveys that people miss a sense of the seasons; particularly if they live in a city. Flowers and plants are a reminder of those seasons - and each season the Flowers & Plants Association can show you new ideas for flowers.

The F&PA promotes a stylish new flower trend each season, exclusively for the UK. The trends are created with the assistance of leading European prediction companies, and tie in with home decor and catwalk fashions. These new trends fit in with modern interiors - and the arrangements are simple and quick to do. They don't require huge bunches of flowers to achieve - even a couple of flower stems can transform your room – and your mood!

Vintage Glamour : The Flower Fashion Trend for Winter 2006
  
Everyone deserves a little beauty in their life; this winter, with the “Vintage Glamour” flower trend, the focus is firmly on beauty and luxury. The result is an elegant, feminine look reminiscent of the 1920’s and 1950’s, adorned with beads and pearls, feathers and diamante. These are combined with luxe materials such as satin, leather, metal, lacquer and mother-of-pearl to create the ultimate in boudoir chic!
  
Pastel shades mix and match in elegant romantic shapes, with darker contrasts of branches or vases to add depth and drama. Flowers are fragrant, such as tuberose, carnation, and rose; and unashamedly alluring like orchids. You can imagine these flowers in the bedrooms of Hollywood starlets, or gracing the “flapper scene” nightclubs of Paris. The arrangements remind us of the great beauties of the silver screen – often opulent, sometimes decadent, and always glamorous.
  
For the complete trend, and more ideas for seasonal flowers, visit www.flowers.org.uk

See the photo gallery for further floral inspiration!

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