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Birth BloomsThe print archive Get the collection — $19

Keep the month that made you. Every birth month has its own flower. Here are all twelve, drawn by one hand and ready to print tonight.

Tell us your month and we’ll give you 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.

Instant digital artwork. Download, print through the service you choose, and frame it your way.

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The June print: a line-drawn rose above the word June and the caption Rose, on warm off-white paper.

Rose

June · love, beauty, devotion

8 × 10

12 months · 4 print sizes · 2 colourways · 172 files · vector PDF and 300 dpi PNG · yours to keep

The specimen cabinet · 01—12

Open the drawer for the month that matters.

Pick a month to meet its flower, its meaning, and the print that goes with it. Yours arrives free, on this page, in about a minute.

Find your birth bloom

Pick the month. We’ll show you the flower and give you the print.

Your birth month
    The January print — snowdrop The February print — violet The March print — daffodil The April print — daisy The May print — lily of the valley The June print — rose The July print — water lily The August print — poppy The September print — morning glory The October print — cosmos The November print — chrysanthemum The December print — holly

    The complete year, drawn as one set.

    Verifiable facts, not testimonials. There are no customers to quote yet, so none are quoted.

    All twelve birth flowers in one grid: snowdrop, violet, daffodil, daisy, lily of the valley, rose, water lily, poppy, morning glory, cosmos, chrysanthemum and holly.
    The whole year

    Vector, so 11 × 14 is as sharp as 5 × 7

    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.

    The January print: a line-drawn snowdrop above the word January and the caption Snowdrop.

    The bare plate

    July’s water lily as bare line art with a transparent background and no lettering.

    Every flower, undressed

    Each bloom 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. The same drawing as the print, with the label taken off.

    And a wallpaper for the phone you actually look at

    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.

    A phone wallpaper showing the June rose in white on a near-black background.

    Nine months get a second bloom. Three don’t, and we say so.

    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 October print: line-drawn cosmos flowers above the word October and the caption Cosmos.

    Every month, and what its flower has always meant.

    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.

    Birth Blooms index Twelve of twelve

      The complete archive

      Twelve blooms,
      $19

      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?”

      Collect the archive — $19

      Instant download, straight after you pay. Save the zip when it lands. 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.

      • 96print PDFs — twelve months × four sizes × two colourways
      • 12ready-to-print PNGs at 300 dpi, for anywhere that won’t take a PDF
      • 12phone wallpapers
      • 24bare line-art files — an SVG and a transparent PNG per flower
      • 27second-bloom files for the nine months that have one
      • 1printing guide, so the margins come out right the first time

      Made for cotton rag, happy on cardstock.

      Nothing is shipped, which means nothing is compromised in transit and nothing is out of stock. You choose the paper, the size and the printer — at home, at a local shop, or through an online lab. The guide in the folder tells you exactly what to ask for.

      • 5 × 7Small frame
      • 8 × 10The standard
      • 11 × 14Statement
      • A4Outside the US

      Included in the folder

      The printing guide

      Scale
      Print at 100% or “actual size”, never “fit to page”.
      Stock
      Matte card, 200gsm or heavier. Cotton rag if you have it.
      Colourway
      Ink-on-paper for a light frame; reversed for a dark one.
      If it goes wrong
      Reply to your receipt. A person reads those.

      Printed, framed and posted.

      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 cabinet above and we’ll write to you once when it is — that’s the only thing we’ll use it for.

      Open the cabinet

      Collector inquiries.

      Everything you need to know about the source files, printing, licence, and provenance.

      What exactly is a “birth flower”?

      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 index on this page names both where both exist.

      Do I need special software?

      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.

      Will it look as good printed as it does here?

      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.

      Can I use these on things I sell?

      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.

      My country lists a different flower for my month.

      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.

      What happens to my email address?

      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.

      A flower kept is a memory held.

      Twelve months, one hand, one payment. Give your birth date a second presence — on the wall, on the phone, on the inside of a wrist.

      Open the specimen cabinet

      Get the collection — $19