October birth flower ceramic gifts have the marigold to work with — the flower of Dia de los Muertos, Mary's gold, and the most saturated end of the autumn palette. Chive made a ceramic version in orange. Four inches. The marigold name comes from the phrase Mary's gold in medieval English, which is either a piece of etymology worth keeping or a detail that explains why this flower has been taken seriously for a very long time. The ceramic version takes it seriously on a wall.

October birthday gift for the flower the studio made reluctantly

Marigolds are not Todd's favorite flowers. He thinks their primary purpose is keeping bugs away. Some of the French ones can be pretty. He has always felt this was a reasonable position and he is not revising it. The studio made the orange ceramic version anyway, because October babies did not choose their birth flower and deserve something made carefully regardless of how the studio feels about the source material. Longwood Gardens stocked it. The marigold has not commented on the studio's previous position. The studio appreciates the discretion.

Chive ceramic flowers are stocked in Longwood Gardens, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Wadsworth Atheneum, 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 orange marigold ships in a Chive gift box and hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. It does not require a garden, a vase, or the specific conditions that make a real marigold such a reliable annual. It is the October birthday gift that arrives in the correct color for the month and stays there — on the wall, in orange, being October — indefinitely.