Visual merchandising with natural elements is popular in all types of retail stores and for catalog photography staging.
Tweed Baby Outfitters uses branches as fixture bars for hanging apparel and stumps for display risers for shoes. This store for babies and toddlers is located in the popular shopping area of Edgehill Village in Nashville TN.
These unique wall displays for jewelry at Umba Creative Coop in Boulder CO, are made from bark pieces, twigs and stump slices.
Felt birds and acorn bookends fit well in the merchandise mix with jewelry on branches in this display window at Trinket in Burlington VT.
Floral, greenery and shells are strategically placed in the jewelry and accessory display cabinets at Details in Winter Park FL.
Vintage props and dried flowers create a lovely vignette for this blue pottery display at The Farmhouse Store in Westfield NJ.
~Becky
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Becky Tyre is a visual merchandising consultant and the owner of the Retail Details blog, also on facebook. Becky is the Trends Editor at GIFT SHOP Magazine. You can also join Becky for discussions about trends in retail, products and displays as one of the contributors on the GIFT SHOP Magazine facebook page.
If you want a lesson in effective use of color in visual merchandising, visit a showroom that carries 
This photo, above, is from their showroom in the 
Sometimes single colors are the best way to make a statement. This is particularly effective when displaying a collection such as this pink grouping by 
Bentley’s Reserve
Once again, their use of color and merchandise arrangement shows a nice blend of mixing metals and a little pop of color. The result allows the white products to really stand out! Product areas are 
Life preservers have always made good props for resort and spring displays, but the colors, stripes and dots on these took this visual merchandising staple to a new level. These two displays at ACCESSORIZE immediately caught my eye on my way to tour a retail store elsewhere in Stockholm. The background graphics were quite nice, as well. I wish I had taken a picture from further back to get the full effect of this display story. To read/view parts 1 and 2 of the Stockholm Sweden displays, 
Don’t you just love how the cake stands are used in the displays on these shelves at 
At Retail Details, we LOVE interesting vases used for jewelry displays! This one is from 
Cute display idea for headbands and hair ties using a boot and a bottle at 
Retail Details & Swirl Marketing send our warmest congratulations to our friends at 
This display not only makes you look, it draws you in and presents quite a bit of merchandise and information. The window speaks: we sell men’s, women’s, shoes, hats, belts, ties, watches, hats, satchels, sunglasses, jewelry, nail polish and I’m sure I missed something else in the picture. I’m always pleased to share clever displays and this one came from a 
Last week was Earth Day and in celebration, 
I’ve had some requests to include some traditional display methods in the blog and I ran across this example of a slatwall display that exhibits the versatility of this type of perimeter display. At 
The 
As any leftover Easter products are moved to the clearance table, spring displays turn into Mother’s Day displays. 
I don’t get very many bookstore displays submitted for blog consideration. Mother’s Day is an ideal time of year for book shops to feature the vast selection of products that they stock, in addition to books. In this two-sided display from 
To kick off Spring 2011, 
This peep toe shoe display was provided by Patrick Plank, the Creative Director at 
