I use a feather duster on mine, once a week. It works just fine. Perhaps with the grime on yours you first need to lightly mist or sponge them off?

I toss mine in either the sink or the bathtub. I lay them down sideways and concentrate on the flower/leafy part.

I spray them with water and then spray them with any kind of cleaning soap product. I let them sit for maybe 10 minutes and then spray them again with with water. I let them stay there for awhile to drip off and then I carry them outside on a nice sunny windy day. They look brand new.

It is only silk and washes like a dream. I do that probably twice a year and in between I just dust them off with a feather duster.

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We've a silly appliance called a steam cleaner that requires distilled water and warm up and complicated setup and emptying. And, the only use I've found for the silly thing is cleaning plants. It has a wand that produces a stream of moisture at about skin temperature. I clean all my plants with it. It should work for silk plants too.

You can take them outside and spray them with the garden hose. Once they are dry, bring them back in.

Since they are up high in the kitchen and you say they are dirty, I bet that they are coated with a combination of dust and cooking grease. That won't be easy to remove except to wash it off. I would pull the silk flowers out of their containers if that is possible and wash them in a tub of hot water and laundry detergent. Rinse them well and put them back into their containers to dry so that the flowers and leaves will fluff out again.

I fill my bathroom sink with cold water and a bit of Woolite. Swish them in that, then rinse under running water, and then I drop them into the tub to dry.

They look like new that way, every time

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It may be an old thread, but the information is very much appreciated!

I used to buy a special spray for cleaning silk flowers. I got it at a silk flower store.

If they are really "silk" and some made in France are real silk....do not wash them!! The colors will run and they will become a limp mess. But if they ae polyester....just swish them in a basin of soapy water....and in another to rinse, hang upside down to dry.

Mine are the synthetic/polyester type flowers and greenery.

The ones in kitchen on top of cabinets are soaked in kitchen sink with dawn dish soap and warm water. Rinse well. Shake to dry as best as you can. Hang to dry in shower/bathtub. Adding a fan is ever better indoors. The fan seems to help in drying faster with less water spots. Better still if weather permits hanging outdoors (preferably in the shade) does even better. Same as above...soak, rinse, shake, hang.

As for my larger, synthetic potted trees....I place in shower. Depending on the vessel/basket or whatever is on bottom will determine if I stand in the shower or simply lean foliage, tree trunk, etc into shower stall. One I have is in a cool wicker basket. So I try to not get it wet. I clean basket like I do wood furniture. Anyhoo, I have a spray bottle with dawn dish soap and water. I rinse foliage, trunk etc with warm water. Spray soap solution onto foliage, trunk etc. Let work 2-3 min....rinse well, shake, hang.

If you feel this info is old and irrelevant, don't read it. Tried and true solutions never grow old.

I just put mine in the shower and spray with the handheld. Most artificial plants are not made from silk but polyester and are pretty bomb proof as far as water goes. If the leaves are covered with greasy dust, I'd put some dishwashing detergent and water in a spray bottle, squirt the leaves (in the shower, then rinse it off. You can let it dry in the shower. You can cover the base with a plastic bag taped to the stem if you don't want that part to get wet.

This is 11-3-2025 and google brought this up! Thanks! I need to clean fake fern. Kitchen is to the right. Air return to the left. It gets dirty!