May birth flower ceramic gifts have the hawthorn to work with — the blossom most people recognize as the thing covering hedgerows in white every spring, now in a blue white glaze. Three inches. Designed for a wall. The hawthorn does not have a strong following in the birthday gift market, which is the point. Chive made this one because the market had not bothered, and spite remains a valid creative driver.

May birthday gift from a studio that knows what hawthorn does

Todd's mother loved hawthorn because bees love hawthorn. His love for his mother dwindled a little because of this. The blue white hawthorn is the May flower: specific enough that the person receiving it will know you looked it up, unusual enough that no one else at the birthday will have brought one. The ceramic version hangs with one screw in 90 seconds and has never once attracted a bee. This is the primary design improvement over the original.

Chive ceramic flowers are stocked in Denver Botanic Gardens, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, SFMOMA, 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 blue white hawthorn ships in a Chive gift box, ready to hang. It is the May birthday gift that does not arrive wrapped in the assumption that roses are the default. It is hawthorn — the actual May flower — in a glaze that matches nothing in the standard gifting aisle and stays on the wall long after the birthday has been converted into a memory.