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Discover the Ultimate in Holiday Display Trends! Visual Eye-Candy Delivered to Your Mailbox Straight from Paris and Germany! Check out my 25-image photo gallery of favorites! With the winter holidays ranking as the number one gift-giving season of all, in-store merchandising is the backbone of each store’s financial success... Read More Share this FREE Newsletter with your team! Rock Stars of the Industry VIDEO: White House Christmas Tour 2018 Every December, the White House is filled with holiday decorations: Christmas trees, wreaths, garland, colorful lights, gingerbread houses, and more. Volunteers from across the country work diligently in late November to get the White House ready for the very popular... Read More   Tricks of the Fresh Cut Trade 3 Amazing Centerpieces & Tablescapes for Holiday Entertaining With the holidays coming – and the party guests soon arriving – it’s time to think about a centerpiece to set the stage for your holiday tablescape. The pros at Rebel Hill Florist have some solid suggestions - from... Read More   Tricks of the Plant Trade PHOTO GALLERY: 30 Mini Christmas Trees That Make the Cutest Holiday Decorations Ever Why settle for just one big tree in your living room this year? These pint-sized decorations might be tiny, but they’ll bring plenty of Christmas spirit into your holiday-ready home. Here are 30 Mini Christmas trees that... Read More   Industry Events Dubai Miracle Garden Unveils Floral Disney Characters The world’s largest natural flower garden, Dubai Miracle Garden, returns for its seventh season on November 1 with a stunning range of new floral masterpieces and live entertainment. The Guinness record... Read More   Career Builders How to Be Creative When You’re Feeling Stressed More than just lightly toasted, your brain feels singed. You’re burned out, and the cumulative stress makes it hard to decide what to eat for dinner, let alone come up with innovative ideas. But people are still... Read More   Colors and Trends Pantone's Updated Color Finder is a Designer's Dream Even designers with the keenest eye for detail and an inside-out understanding of color theory will have struggled to identify the right hue at some point of their careers. To make the process of finding swatches and... Read More   Tech Tips The First Self-Driving Car You Use Will Most Likely Carry Your Groceries, Not You Major companies like Ford, Toyota, Google, and Apple are all investing in autonomous vehicles, and a new report from the audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG predicts another function for them in addition to... Read More   Retail Trends Best Inventions 2018 Every year, TIME highlights the Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. To assemble our 2018 list, we solicited nominations across a variety of categories from our editors and correspondents around the world, as well as through an... Read More   Science & Research How Many Senses Do Plants Employ? More Than Animals Or People, It Seems Thinking of the five human senses, how many would you say are also present in the average plant? Touch might seem obvious in the climbing vine that sends out tendrils to locate and lock onto support, or in the... Read More

Christina Burton-Fox AIFD floral artist & instructor