Twelve months, twelve flowers
Tell us your month and we’ll send that flower’s print, free. The whole year — twelve blooms across four print sizes, phone wallpapers, and the bare line art a tattoo artist can actually use — is $19, downloaded in about a minute.
What’s inside
Search “birth flower” and you get twelve pictures by twelve different people, at twelve different line weights. Framed side by side they look like a ransom note. These were drawn as a single set, so January and December belong on the same wall.
Each print is a real vector PDF — paths, not pixels — so there’s no resolution to run out of. 5 × 7, 8 × 10, 11 × 14 and A4 are all in the folder, each in ink-on-paper and reversed for a dark frame. Print at home, or send the file straight to a print shop; they’ll know exactly what to do with it.
Every flower also arrives on its own — no month, no lettering — as an SVG and a transparent PNG. That’s the file a tattoo artist wants, and the one a cutting machine or an embroidery hoop needs. It’s the same drawing as the print, just undressed.
Twelve wallpapers, one per month, sized for a modern phone and set in the reverse colourway so the flower reads over your icons instead of fighting them. It is, in practice, the piece people use every day.
Most months have two traditional flowers — January is snowdrop and carnation, July is water lily and larkspur. Where a second one exists in the tradition, it’s drawn and in the folder: nine of the twelve. February, September and November get one, because that’s what the tradition gives them. We’d rather leave a gap than invent a flower to fill it.
The twelve
Birth flowers come out of Victorian floriography — the habit of assigning a plant, and a sentiment, to each month. The pairings below are the ones that have stuck.
The whole year
One payment. The files are yours to keep and to print as often as you like — for your own walls, or as the gift that made someone say “how did you find mine?”
Instant download, plus a link by email. If a file won’t open or won’t print, reply to your receipt — a person reads those, and we’ll fix it or refund you.
Coming
The same blooms on paper you don’t have to print yourself — and on a mug, a pouch, a notebook. Made to order and shipped to you. It isn’t open yet. Put your month in the quiz above and we’ll write to you once when it is — that’s the only thing we’ll use it for.
A note from the person who made this.
The flowers were drawn one at a time across a year, for a shop that closed before most people saw them. They sat in a folder after that. This is the same set, finished properly: re-typeset, cleaned up, and put somewhere you can actually get them. I’m the one who reads the replies, so if a file gives you trouble, say so and I’ll sort it.
— Matt, Birth Blooms
Before you ask
Every calendar month has a flower traditionally attached to it, the way it has a birthstone. January is the snowdrop, June the rose, November the chrysanthemum. Most months have two; the tradition is Victorian and it isn’t perfectly consistent, which is why the list on this page names both where both exist.
No. Every print is an ordinary PDF — whatever already opens PDFs on your phone or laptop will open these. The line art is also supplied as PNG, so you never need a vector editor unless you want one.
Better, on decent paper. Print at 100% or “actual size” rather than “fit to page”, on matte card of 200gsm or heavier. The printing guide in the folder says the same thing in more detail. If your print comes out wrong, reply to the receipt and we’ll help.
No — the licence is personal use. Print as many copies as you like for yourself or to give away, but the files can’t be resold, redistributed, or used in products you sell.
That happens; the tradition varies by region and by which Victorian list you follow. Where a month has a widely-used second flower, it’s in the collection. If yours isn’t here at all, reply and tell me — that’s genuinely how the next set gets decided.
It gets your print, and occasional notes from Birth Blooms. It is never sold or shared. One click unsubscribes, and that’s the end of it.