Floral interiors get gothic and surreal: super-sized flower prints featuring wild animals and household pests take over our homes this season

Floral furnishings are surreal this season. Super-sized blooms enfold entire walls, backgrounds are inky and moody, and colours unnatural. If you peer into the petals there could be stranger elements: is there really a snake in that bouquet?

Prime exponent of this growing trend is Australian illustrator Courtney Brims, partnering with quirky UK brand Mineheart.

She has added moths, rats, snails, snakes and even skeletons to classic ogee floral William Morris-inspired wallpaper that’s an English country garden with a touch of Gothic horror, “half dream, half nightmare, to show the beauty and brutality of the natural world”. It’s £152 per 10-metre roll.

Fulham-based fine artist Melinda Marquardt’s label is The Vale London. Her Lion Toile wallpaper features the head of a noble beast she sketched on safari. He’s surrounded by pretty-pretty flowers on a marbled background (wallpapers from £200 a roll).

There are also little lions and noble horses darkly shaded on papers by Swedish designer Lisa Bengtsson.

More soothing is a new large-scale pattern by London wallpaper artist Kit Miles.

Water is his latest theme, with glistening, hyper-real droplets on giant camellia blooms that “grow” from serene pools, all in shades of blue.

Phases des Camélias comes as three panels to fill a wall for £800.

This trend for mega-motifs is growing, enabled by innovative digital printing and sturdy new paper types, bringing a surreal touch to any room. Keenly priced are “murals on a roll” from Lancashire printers Graham & Brown, priced from £60, but mostly around £150.

Or consider a large-scale design, custom-printed to fit your room by Surface View, which has access to 3,000 images from leading museums and galleries, with the Royal Horticultural Society archive a prime source for flowers and plants.

Surface View also prints on to tiles, blinds and window film.

Woodchip & Magnolia also custom-prints murals, supplied in numbered panels. “Florals make walls look bigger, opening up your home, and bringing the outside in,” says director/designer Nina Marika Tarnowski.

For maximum impact use on all four walls, and why not include the ceiling, maybe in a downstairs loo?

At Osborne & Little, three panels make up a dramatic Magnolia Frieze, designed to run horizontally in the centre of a wall, to frame or sit above furniture.

“Create a backdrop behind a sofa or a bed, or run around all four walls of a dining space,” says head of design Johanna Bright (priced £210 per roll).

At Designers Guild, a “fresco” of super-sized flower heads comes as two panels to use together or alone. Tourangelle Scene is £195 per roll.

Adding a dark background turns a pretty English meadow into a moody Dutch flower painting. At Sanderson, Tulipomania features hand-painted blooms on an indigo background with flashes of gold (£75 for a metre).

Ted Baker puts bold bouquets on sateen double duvet covers, £90, and pillowcases, £35 a pair (ashleywildegroup.com).

Ralph Lauren’s swirling floral tableware in black or indigo is made by English craft pottery Burleigh (cereal bowl £32; salad plate £34).

And Jenny Mein hand-paints the exotic fruits and flowers of her childhood family garden in Jamaica for bone china made in Stoke-on-Trent (£16 for a mug, £20 for a salad plate).

If you crave simple, inexpensive blooms to brighten a tired room, the new H&M Home at 208 Regent Street, W1, has fresh florals from £2.99 for a cushion to £39.99 for a duvet cover.