September birth flower ceramic gifts have the aster to work with — the late-summer bloom that arrives when most garden flowers have finished their opinions about the season and begun the process of winding down. Chive made a ceramic version in ivory. Three inches. The aster means star in Greek. The ivory ceramic version means September birthday and has no further symbolic agenda.

September birthday gift from a studio with a reason for this flower

Todd's grandmother's trick to figure out if it was going to rain was to look at the asters in her garden. If they were closed, rain was coming. She was right about this with a consistency that impressed everyone who witnessed it. The ivory aster is the September flower: a specific bloom with a specific memory attached, in a glaze that works with any wall color and does not compete with the October marigold next to it if someone has a family with back-to-back birthdays.

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

September birthday gift ideas that mean something specific

The ivory aster ships in a Chive gift box and arrives ready to hang with one screw in 90 seconds. It is the September birthday gift that acknowledges the month by name — aster, September, ivory, made by hand — rather than arriving as a seasonal approximation. Atlanta Botanical Garden stocks it. The wall it ends up on does not need to know this, but it is a better credential than the seasonal section of any gift shop.