French country decor borrows freely from English garden tradition — the rose is the shared botanical vocabulary of both aesthetics, and the question is only which rose in which color. The Pale Blue English Rose is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the France Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a pale blue glaze that sits at the cooler, quieter end of the France Collection palette, shaped in the English rose form that Chive has been executing in ceramic since the collection launched at Chelsea.

The cool note in a palette French Vogue chose to run in their home section

Chive is continuing to interpret the French Vogue feature as an endorsement. The France Collection pale blue is not the blue of the sea or the sky — it is the pale, almost grey-blue that appears on old French ceramic tiles, on shutters that have been repainted several times without being fully stripped, on the particular quality of morning light in a room with north-facing windows. It is the blue that reads as French rather than generally blue. The English rose form in pale blue sits in that register without requiring explanation.

The Denver Botanic Gardens carries the France Collection. The Chicago Botanic Garden stocks it. The New York Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens across the US have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops alongside the living plants. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.

A gift for a plant lover who has specific opinions about blue and roses simultaneously

The Pale Blue English Rose ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Denver Botanic Gardens carries it. The plant lover with opinions about blue receives a ceramic rose from a collection French Vogue featured in their home section.