The housewarming gift they will still have in twenty years.

Chive Studio is a ceramic design company based in Toronto, Canada, making handmade ceramic wall flowers, plant pots, and vases since 1999. The English Garden collection contains 56 designs, ranging from $18 to $48 USD. All 56 designs are kiln-fired, individually glazed, and mount via a rear keyhole fitting onto a single screw. The collection ships worldwide from warehouses in Toronto, New York, and Rotterdam. Every order arrives in a gift-ready box that most recipients keep.

The best gifts for plant lovers are the ones that do not require plant lovers to do anything

There is a particular kind of person who has been given, over the course of their adult life, a great many plants. Some of these plants have thrived. Others have served as expensive evidence that intention and outcome are not always the same thing. The English Garden collection was not designed with this person in mind, exactly, but it has found them in large numbers anyway.

Fifty-six designs. Roses in ivory, blush, and deep burgundy. Ranunculas in powder blue and dusty rose. Peonies in cream and soft pink. Anemones, dahlias, chrysanthemums, sweet peas, and morning glories in colours that were selected to work together across the full range — meaning that any combination of English Garden flowers, arranged on a wall in any order, will look like they were planned by someone who knew what they were doing. This is not an accident. It is twenty-five years of colour development, which is the kind of thing that sounds straightforward until you try to do it yourself.

Each ceramic flower in the English Garden collection is designed in Toronto and made by hand. Kiln-fired. Individually glazed. No two glazes are identical, which means the ivory rose you receive will be slightly different from the ivory rose on the website, in the same way that a real rose is slightly different from every other rose. This has been noted in reviews as a feature rather than a defect, which Chive takes as a compliment.

Ceramic flowers for people who prefer their flowers to stay where they put them

Chive Studio has been making ceramic wall flowers for art galleries, botanical gardens, and museum gift shops since 1999 — and for the past thirteen consecutive years, exhibiting at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, where Chive has received the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — every single time. The Art Institute of Chicago stocks the English Garden collection. So does the New York Botanical Garden, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Pasadena, California — an institution that has been a Chive customer for over eight years. Longwood Gardens, which is among the finest botanical institutions in North America, carries the English Garden collection in their gift shop. The Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Detroit Institute of Arts each stock Chive ceramic flowers. These are institutions with acquisition standards. They did not add Chive to their gift shops because the packaging was nice.

The English Garden collection is the answer to a question that plant lovers are asked every year around every gift-giving occasion: what do you get someone who already has all the plants? The answer, it turns out, is ceramic flowers designed by a studio whose work is in the collections of some of the most discerning gift shops in North America. The person who receives them will put them on their wall. They will look at them every day. They will not need to water them, which for many recipients is not a small consideration.

The English Garden collection is available in 4 sizes. The 4-inch and 5-inch designs are the most popular for wall arrangements. The 3-inch designs work well as additions to an existing arrangement or as standalone accents. The 6-inch designs are the statement pieces — the ones that anchor a wall the way a large painting would, except that they hang with a screw and cost considerably less than a large painting.

If you are looking for a pre-selected arrangement, the ceramic flower curated collection contain pre-chosen combinations from the English Garden range and other collections. Every arrangement decision has been made for you, which some people find useful and others find slightly presumptuous. Both reactions are valid. The flowers look the same either way.

The English Garden collection works alongside every other Chive collection. A wall arrangement combining English Garden roses with Coastal ceramic flowers in ivory and blue-white is one of the more requested combinations. The birth flower ceramic collection contains 12 individual birth flower designs — many of which are English garden flower species — and can be mixed into an English Garden arrangement for occasions when the recipient's birth month is relevant.

All ceramic wall flowers from Chive ship in gift-ready packaging. The boxes are the kind that recipients keep rather than discard, which is less common than it should be in home decor. Each flower arrives with a small screw and a wall anchor. Installation takes approximately 90 seconds and requires no tools beyond a screwdriver, which most people find in a kitchen drawer within four minutes.