Following our note on sustainable church flowers posted on 3 September 2022, this flower arrangement, one of several in Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire, compromises by having a mixture of presumably ‘permanent’ artificial flowers (such as the cornflowers, Centaurea cyanus), dried material (such as opium poppy, Papaver somniferum seedheads) and inserted fresh flowers (such as sunflowers, Helianthus annuus).

Photographed 1 August 2026