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General Outlook: Florals KAT CROSSLEY, PETAL & FERN
Lights, Flowers, Party! There’s nothing like the right lighting to take a beautiful flower arrangement to the next level. Neon signs paired with floral arbours and installations will continue to be a popular look in the year ahead. If you’re on a budget, pillar candles, Edison bulbs or festoon lights will also work a treat alongside floral arrangements.
Work with your venue Installations remain on trend but now there is a very strong emphasis on creating displays that work with and enhance the specific venue. Instead of finding a picture of an installation on Pinterest and replicating it, do a venue walk-through with your florist and brainstorm how flowers could be used in that particular space. Interesting features like ledges, curving
Let’s hear it for Coral Blush has been a very popular tone in flower arrangements for the past few years but with the announcement of Living Coral as Pantone’s 2019 Colour of the Year, we’re likely to find peachy and apricot tones creeping into floral palettes to complement or even replace pinks. While we’re on the topic of colour, you can also expect to see darker, richer palettes becoming more popular. 36
