Interior design: Why dried flowers are trending this season

In full bloom: Fake flowers in buds and undressed shaggy blossoms are seeing an incredible renaissance

A few discreet silk carnations sit with in a highly modern arrangement that blends in with a neutral setting. The Bauhaus stands and vases are deliver a tall sculptural eye-catcher Picture: iStock

Dried flowers are bristling up into an unexpected trend that’s reaching into this winter, and if all that comes to mind is the perpetually, moulting pampas grass waving from the back of the G-plan sofa in the 80s, it’s time to take another look at the decorative power of preservation.

Fake flowers in buds and undressed shaggy blossoms have already seen an incredible renaissance, pushing aside those cheap, funereal plug-on plastics phonies, in a popular growth spurt of hand-assembled latex, paper and silk blossoms, berries, branches and greenery.