A flower for someone you love, in your own voice.
A love letter, read to them in your own voice, and a flower that opens as they listen. Print it on ivory, or on Prussian blue as a cyanotype, where only the flower comes back to colour.
Its flowers
The occasion’s own come first at the desk; any of the eighteen can be sent, alone or as a posy of up to seven. Each grows from the words of its letter, so no two are alike.
Plate I.RoseRosa × hybrida
Plate II.TulipTulipa gesneriana
Plate III.RanunculusRanunculus asiaticus
Plate XV.MoonflowerIpomœa albaA rare bloom of our own. On Prussian blue it opens under moonlight, among fireflies.
Plate IX.Forget-me-notMyosotis sylvatica
Plate XVI.Glass roseRosa vitreaA rare bloom of our own, after the glass flowers the Blaschkas made for Harvard between 1886 and 1936.
Its paper
Printed on ivory as a hand-coloured engraving, the whole plate comes to life as it opens, pollen drifting in the light. Or choose Prussian blue: a cyanotype, where only the flower returns to colour.
Its music
Pieces written for the book. As the flower opens, the music pauses and a soft piano plays their name, a note for each letter.
- Lamplight · the occasion’s own
- Night Letter
- Pressed Violets
- Many Mornings
- No music · only the room’s own sounds, your voice and their name
Its day
Send it now, or choose the day and the hour it opens, in their time zone. It reaches them by email, or as a link and QR code you send yourself. Until it reaches them you can change its day, or cancel it and have your money back.
Writing it
Nobody hears it but them. Write it as you would say it, then say it.
Open a sampleRose for Ingrid, from Tomás, as they would see it. With sound.
One price
£5 a flower, everything included. $6 · €6
- A living flower, grown from its own seed, so no two are alike
- Your letter, up to 2,000 characters
- Your own voice: read the letter to them, leave a message, or both
- Their name, played as a melody the moment the flower opens
- A signature piece of music for the occasion
- A wax seal in your colour, pressed with your initials
- Delivery by email on the day you choose, or by link and QR code
- A pressed plate of their flower to keep
- A note to you when they open it
- Their reply, in their own voice, sent back to you
From the blog
What are digital flowers? How to send one
What digital flowers are, how to send them, when they’re better than real ones and when they aren’t, and why your own voice makes one mean something.