Summer 2012 begins where the light of day begins to turn into summer twilight.

Twilight Bloom looks back toward the 70s, with dark colours that convey a tighter, more stylish look.

Green and darker-coloured plants are suitable for Twilight Bloom.

Love of traditions, old heirlooms and vintage items is combined with contemporary interpretations of flowers and precious stones in the theme ‘Vintage Bloom’. The theme combines green and pink hues, thereby creating room for both flowers, leaves and stems.

The Vintage style has a strong influence on both styling and base, and is
especially expressed through materials such as gemstones, broderi anglaise, crocheted fabrics, antique gold, porcelain, stained glass and brocade textiles.

Floral Delight celebrates the return of a lightly-decorated style. The theme encompasses many different elements from vintage, flowers and botany, ballet,
bohemia and ancient Persia. Floral Delight is a short cut to pleasure, propelled by red hues, which encourages a more romantic approach to the zeitgeist.

The focus is on the flowering plants. With a feminine approach, plants with flowers
of different colours and sizes are combined in Floral Delight.

The red shades are important this season. Consequently, Floral Delight focuses on beautiful red tones, such as a strong, muted coral or a classic Persian red.

Nature is an important source of inspiration for us in this season, which can sometimes feel rather turbulent. In Forest Delight, the forest and the conservatory contribute to a romantic interpretation of nature. Birds, feathers, forest floors, moss, trees, leaves and branches, and even microorganisms are all elements that form part of the theme.

The expression is idyllic and romanticised, using forest and natural materials with an either finished or rustic appearance, in such a way that nature is still recognisable in them. The focus is on green plants or coloured plants in the shades of the palette.

For other seasonally related pictures, please visit our Image Bank and choose Summer as Theme.

Paradise islands are beautiful oases in the middle of the Pacific which have provided the inspiration for the plant trend Paradise Flowers. For the summer of 2011 we are yearning for true beauty, and we find it in nature’s most beautiful elements: exotic flowers, fabulous bird life, vibrant corals and divine palm islands.

The tropical expressions and paradisiacal flowers should be displayed with plants styled with natural materials, in oases or colourful arrangements.

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The Modern Bloom plant trend is for homes with a modern decor with subtle hints of romance and decoration.

There might for example be a vibrant and colourful cushion on a grey sofa, a glossy white table with decorative vases, or a handmade wooden cupboard decorated with dishes with floral motifs.

For many people, the interior of the modern home has now become too clinical and cool, so plants contribute a suitable touch of colour and decoration.

For other seasonally related pictures, please visit our Image Bank and choose Spring as Theme.

Sweet Sin is a plant trend which on the surface is feminine, pretty and romantic, while the underlying theme produces a constantly sinful and surprising twist.

The white colour and the powdered makeup shades of the delicate flowers can be made raw in the styling by adding punk elements such as studs and chains. Spiky natural materials, or the leaves from prickly green plants, can also be used in the styling.

A fiery element in the delicate colour universe is yellow, which will be anything but dominant in the home, but is suitable for details.

This winter’s plant trend is ideal for the woman who would like to renew a romantic and feminine decor by adding raw and edgy details. The expression can be seen, not just in home interiors, but also in fashion, in both clothing and accessories.

For other seasonally related pictures, please visit our Image Bank and choose Winter as Theme.

Honest craftsmanship is now enjoying renewed status and respect, and the Labour Lust plant trend is a tribute to this.

Among consumers, we are seeing an increasing interest in DIY work and gardening, and there has been a change in consumption patterns in the direction of a greater focus on ’budget luxury’, which is about value for money, prudence and common sense.

With heavy, patinated and worn materials, Labour Lust draws its inspiration from
industrialisation, while in the fashion picture, denim comes to play a major role, in view of the history of the material.

Labour Lust is ideal for the home in a rustic style with wood, leather and natureinspired autumn colours. In the home’s outdoor spaces, the trend matches the autumn desire to pull on work gloves and plant new, colourful flowers in pots.

Urban Naure is a plant trend where natural features are given a controlled, urban-inspired expression. Nature is in short supply in the city.

In the home, plant walls and plant sculptures are becoming increasingly popular. The is an exiting new way to bring nature into your house and enhances the indoor climate with purified air.

In the future Urban Nature cities, nature is integrated into the urban environment with green facades, roof gardens and living screens. The urban environment becomes greener and more alive with plants.

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This winter’s trend is a modern, feminine style integrating decorations and patterns in an otherwise minimalist look.

In the world of fashion, we meet the feminine, delicate and blond expression combined with exciting patterns and structures in strong materials. In our homes, we mix exclusive furniture in organic shapes with velourlike wallpapers and patterns in black and off-white colours, which are the predominant colour combination of the trend. The interior design is minimalist with the interior style featuring decorative elements in the form of cut patterns, such as the ’Prince Chair’ which the Danish designer Louise Campbell is known for.

It is a trend that touches our senses. Some of the plants of this trend have soft leaves with velour-like surfaces while others tickle our sense of smell with their sweet scents. The expression of the trend is enhanced by placing the plants in bases in exciting, organic shapes and with soft surfaces. Create a pattern with several different plants arranged together or combine plants with exciting leaf patterns.

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Nature’s rough wildness as we know it from the huge Canadian forests enters our livingrooms, kitchens and bathrooms as effects in the autumn 2009 – a masculine contrast to the stylish, classic furniture with a colour range signalling autumn.

Green plants are placed on separate bases as trees, imitating the wild forest. Smaller plants with varying leaf shapes can be gathered in a single base, imitating the forest floor. Bases such as pots or plant boxes made of raw wood, leather, rusted objects, clay, hollowed tree roots are covered with a “forest floor” of moss and styled with grass and branches, bones and horns, oilskin and fur in uncontrolled shapes.

Wild Woods is a result of our lack of nature and part of the nature megatrend that characterises fashion and interior designs in these years.
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This summer trend is a gift for you who work with plants. The inspiration originates from the period around the year 1900 where stylised flowers and plant motifs were two of the main ingredients of the Art Nouveau style.

Plants are also in focus when inspiration from nature and more stringency are added to the sweeping lines in 2009 as a response to the minimalism of previous years.

The time has come for modern flower patterns or contours of leaves as prints in modern homes. With lilac and a touch of gold and silver accompanied by the other colours of the style that fascinated people in the 70s. Welcome to sweeping climbers styled alone or several together in elegant harmony with the base or other decorative features to match the style.

We found the Nature Nouveau style in the home of Henriette Staib who owns the flower and interior decoration shop, De 4 Årstider (The 4 seasons), situated in Lyngby, Denmark. With her highly developed sense of details, she has decorated a beautiful luxury villa, mixing styles and colours with simplicity as starting point.

On her travels to India, Vietnam and Turkey, Henriette finds and develops different, new designs which she sells both in her shop and as wholesale products. Please visit http://www.defireaarstider.dk/ for more information.

Plants became part of our interior design a long time ago. Therefore, Danish nurseries carefully follow both fashion and the influence of current trends on our wishes, and the message for 2009 is clear: we will search for easily available, cosy and positive bright spots during the current crisis.

As the financial crisis may put expensive purchases for the home on standby, attention will be focused on small objects capable of reviving and changing interior designs.

Danish nurseries have adopted this trend and the 2009 trend which will be presented for international purchasers at the world's largest plant show in Essen by the end of January will contain many examples of how plants can tackle the current sinister atmosphere.

For several years, the Danish plant industry has cooperated with trend researchers in order to develop ranges capable of matching trends in society, and in 2009, four different styles will affect our choice of clothing and interior design. Danish nurseries are ready with ideas for how to use plants during the different trends.

Welcome to “Happy home” in the spring
Don’t worry – be happy!” is the motto of this spring plant trend. It is both an escape from the current crisis, adding a touch of optimism to the modern home’s grey, white and black universe. Here, both plants and the way they are used serve as small bright spots in the hurly-burley of everyday life. A colourful, surprising and humorous atmosphere is created by placing optimistic plants in a colourful dog bowl. Colourful plastic bases with funny messages and naive decorations, filled with plants combined in unstructured patterns. Everything is allowed, and everybody can participate.

Examples of plants that match this trend:
Argyranthemum frutescens, Bellis perennis, Campanula, Dahlia, Dianthus, Exacum affine, Gerbera hybrid, Helianthus annuus, Kalanchoe, Primula, Ranunculus hybrid.