Fashion Flowers For Autumn - Landscape

< Alstroemeria

Alstroemeria were considered quite unusual four or five years ago - most people surveyed then by the F & PA had not heard of the flower, nor could they name it on sight. Now it regularly appears on our 'favourite flowers' charts.

Its tawny colour range and delicately spotted petals suit the landscape trend very well.

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Helenium >

These daisy-like flowers bring a welcome
touch of sunshine into our homes with their warm colour range. They look best massed in a loose informal group, with similar prairie-style grasses and foliages.

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< Limonium

Limonium latifolium is the species shown in the Landscape trend. This has a delicate, airy, hazy appearance, almost like smoke, making it ideal for this grassland-look fashion. Narrow stalks branch off into many stems, each branching into further stemlets bearing several tiny papery flowers. The flower looks stunning en masse, just by itself - as shown in the trend - or makes an ideal filler for brighter flowers.

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Sedum >

edum's browny pink flat headed flowers are unusual and fascinating and add an extra dimenision to autumnal arrangements.

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< Kniphofia

Kniphofia's warm colouring conjures up images of the grassland and wildlife. These flowers are also available in more subtle shades of pale green, cream and sand, fitting the "Landscape" trend perfectly.

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Cyperus >

Cyperus are commonly called papyrus plants - and these indoor plants are one of the original sources of paper. Native to the Middle East, the earliest plants were used in Biblical times for this purpose - now they are an interesting and unusual decoration for our homes and offices.

The brush-like stalks are also available as
cut foliage stems all year round, as shown
here in the Landscape trend