February birth flower gifts run a narrow course between heart-shaped boxes and cut roses that will be gone by Valentine's Day. Chive made a third option. The February birth flower is the primrose — the small, determined bloom that arrives before most plants have decided it is safe — and this is it in chartreuse, 3 inches, designed for a wall rather than a counter that needs clearing by Thursday.

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The chartreuse primrose is an unusual color choice for a February flower, which is exactly the point. The studio just thought chartreuse was a really cool glaze they invented, so they used it here. No reason given. Most February gifting lands in pink and red. Chartreuse is for the person who has been receiving the correct thing for years and has had enough of it. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds and stays there, being February, on whatever wall it ends up on.

Chive ceramic flowers are stocked in the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMOMA, the New York Botanical Garden, and more than 200 galleries and museum shops worldwide. The Birth Flower Collection was designed in Toronto, made by hand since 1999.

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The chartreuse primrose ships in a Chive gift box and requires no card explaining what a birth flower is, why chartreuse, or why ceramic. It will be on the wall at the next birthday, and the one after that. The ceramic version does not have a departure date.