At Oasis plants we like to keep a close eye on the planting trends for the coming year and how this might be reflected in your projects. The Holland Flower council determine what will be popular in 2025 and the best way to replicate this in your designs.
All images are courtesy of The Holland Flower Council, who have an amazing repository of images with trend collections going back to 2020.
Unique Utopia
Unique Utopia
This trend provides a perfect distraction from the stresses of everyday life. It encourages us to lean towards exuberant design and colour in search of fun, creativity and escape.
The focus of this trend is for the design elements to be larger than life. Greenery is a fundamental element to this trend as it can quickly create a luxurious and exotic environment. Planting should include large statement tropical plants or impactful flowering plants.
This trend will prioritise the use of organic or highly decorative shapes and luxurious materials, for example glazed ceramics, coloured glass, voile or velvet textiles. To provide a contrast this trend also employs more restrained, natural materials like paper, cardboard and wood.
In keeping with the animated themes of this trend, Unique Utopia’s colour palette includes deep, warm tones of aubergine, purple and red. These are set against brighter shades of yellow, pink and turquoise. The contrast to all of these is provided by a neutral base of different shades of brown and, of course the ever-present green!
Radiant Energy
This trend focuses on the recent influx of technology into our lives and its ability to simplify tasks, problem-solve, tackle issues and accelerate deadlines. In an increasingly complex world this is a welcome change that brings a sense of hope and optimism. This renewed optimism for new technology; AI, materials and techniques promotes an ideology for a new way of thinking and a fresh approach.
The trend of Radiant Energy harnesses the use of clean, smooth flowing lines, organic wave patterns, stripes and patterns with light and shadow, or a 3D effect. For planting this translates in the use of contrasting colours with geometric and organic shapes and semi-transparent pots.
The colours used range from pastels to bright shades of blue, green, orange, purple, pinks and lilac with grey as a neutral tone to counter this energetic palette.
Slow Life
This trend refers to the desire to retreat into the safety and familiarity of our own bubble at times of uncertainty and stress. The important themes are safety, connection, trust and sustainability. By creating a smaller and clearer environment that is in line with our core beliefs, one can approach the world with a renewed sense of clarity.
Natural, environmentally friendly and ideally sustainable materials take centre stage in “Slow Life” to enhance this feeling of tranquility. Forms and shapes will be simple and recognizable, complemented by simple designs of stripes, checks and natural prints of flowers, leaves and branches.
Planting will be soft and colourful, flower arrangements will be delicate pastels to echo one of the colour palettes for this trend. The first includes soft tones of lilac, nudes and light blue alongside calming neutral shades of brown and light grey. The second palette is of green, burgundy and ochre to help anchor these lighter tones.
Cosmic Future
Cosmic Future
This style trend centres on themes of connection where borders have become blurred. This might reflect a softening of social boundaries, genders, nationalities and status.
As a result, Cosmic Future brings together opposing ideas, whether this is contrasting colours, metallics, light and dark or matte versus glossy. Futurism plays a key role here too by using innovative design and ultra-modern materials.
The shapes are organic, but sleek, and the designs are mostly abstract. An extra dimension is added by using transparent materials.
The palette is largely cool shades of blue and purple ranging from light to dark, contrasted with warmer tones of Salmon and Aubergine.
