Inspiring Red Magazine event packed with ideas

Highlights from our Red Magazine reader event

We recently joined forces with Red Magazine to inspire their readers with a spectacular, co-hosted event offering botanical masterclasses to Red Magazine's subscribers.  We teamed up with a team of the best stylist, designers and experts, and transformed a four-storey London townhouse into a plant lover’s dream.  We showcased this year's hottest trends in houseplant designs during this exclusive reader event, using our 2015 trends.

Top designers, including interiors stylists, Marianne Cotterill and Joanna Thornhill – as well as Little Big Bell’s Gerladine Tan and Lucy Serafi from the Urban Botanist – showcased looks inspired by our 2015 key trends ‘Eco Luxe’, ‘Unexpected Wild’ and ‘Happy Life’ – and the results were nothing short of stunning!

See some lovely footage from the Red Magazine reader event below: 

Workshop creative and practical skills

The experts, which also included Indoor Garden Design’s Ian Drummond, were also on hand to workshop creative and practical skills – from which houseplants to choose and how to arrange them, to the art of colour matching and blending, and those little details and finishing-touches that promise to make your displays eye-catching and unique.

Hands on DIY sessions
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Hands on DIY sessions

Fun, creative and inspiring DIY sessions showed the readers how to recycle items from the home and transform them into unique, innovative and attractive plant displays

But don’t worry if you missed out on all the fun. We’ve compiled a round-up of the event’s most creative and stunning-but-simple plant design hacks for you to try:

10 houseplant design ideas

1. Turn your mantelpiece into a lavish statement piece with an archway of ivy.

2. Bring a vintage display cabinet to life with unique plants and cascading foliage. 

3. Use Lego head containers as fun planters for kids. 

4. Miniature glass terrariums make great starter gardens for children, and look great in the bedroom (grazing animals optional!). 

5. Line up mismatching jars and bottles along your kitchen windowsill for a pretty view while you’re washing up. 

6. Weave fern leaves or ivy vines through a glass chandelier to create a focal point for the ultimate botanical boudoir. 

7. Add vibrancy to a drab wooden staircase by placing a plant in a colourful pot at the edge of each step.

8. Complement your crockery by displaying plants in colourful planters (or even in cups) on your kitchen shelves.

9. Stencil a plain stepping stool and use it as a tiered plant display in the kitchen. 

10. Create your own living wall art by framing your plants with the wood from reclaimed crates and hanging over the fireplace.

Use bottles and jars for vases
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Bring a vintage display cabinet to life
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Lego head containers
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Line up mismatching jars and bottles
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An archway of ivy for your mantelpiece
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Weave fern leaves or ivy vines through a glass chandelier
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Place a plant in a colourful pot at the edge of each step
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Display plants in colourful planters on your kitchen shelves
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Stencil a plain stepping stool and use it as a tiered plant display
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Create your own living wall art
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Hands on DIY sessions
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Miniature glass terrariums
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