← Floradex · Mail Club Year one · Sheets 001–012

A Flora,
mailed in the month
it blooms.

Seven printed sheets and an envelope, built from a real herbarium specimen or a nineteenth-century plate. Each plant is chosen for the month it is at peak bloom somewhere in the world.

Sheet002 · October 2026
SpeciesChrysanthemum × morifolium
FamilyAsteraceae
Cultivar‘Aigle d’Or’
Pressed1887
Herb.Naturalis, Leiden · L.3705584
det. — one card, 63 × 88 mm, 350gsm, both sides. The front is one bloom nine times, under nine names this plant has been filed under.
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October’s dex card: one chrysanthemum bloom repeated nine times, each cell labelled with a name the plant has been filed under, the centre cell in vermilion carrying the name it keeps

The year, sheet by sheet

Twelve cards · 63 × 88 mm · 350gsm

    What’s in the mail?

    One pack · about 37 g · letter rate

    One whole envelope, opened out. This is sheet 001, September’s — the first pack a member gets. Every month after it has the same seven sheets, in the same order, on the same stocks.

    • The envelope: a pixel mosaic of the wattle beside a gold panel reading September, Golden wattle, 001
      00 The envelopeC6 · 162 × 114 · printed one side
    • The wrapping: the pressed wattle repeated as a pattern across the sheet
      01 The wrappingA5 · 100gsm · both sides
    • The dex card: the pressed specimen printed three times down a signal-yellow ground
      02 The dex card63 × 88 mm · 350gsm · both sides
    • The stickers: one large sticker and four perforated stamps, all numbered 001
      03 The stickersA5 · matte · one big, four small
    • The letter: four columns of type about the wattle, headed Made months apart, opened in one week
      04 The letterA5 · 120gsm laid · folded once
    • The poster: September 001, Golden wattle, with the month’s palette set out in bands
      05 The posterA5 · 250gsm matte art
    • The month card: a bar chart headed Ninety-eight sheets in flower
      06 The month cardA6 · 105 × 148 · 300gsm
    • The postcard: What in you is still forming?, with the flowering-month chart beneath it
      07 The postcardA6 landscape · 300gsm · send it on

    Shown at their real sizes relative to each other. The whole pack is about two millimetres thick, which is what keeps it a letter and not a packet.

    Every sheet has one idea in it

    The plant first · then what it is for
    Sheet 001 · September · timing

    “What in you is still forming?”

    A wattle forms buds in every month of the year and drops most of them. The few that survive all open in the same week.

    Sheet 007 · March · enough

    “What small thing already moved you?”

    A crocus opens when the air warms by two tenths of one degree. A tulip beside it needs a full degree.

    Sheet 011 · July · alive

    “What in you is only waiting?”

    A lotus seed from a dry Chinese lake bed was put in water in 1994 and sprouted. Dating put it at 1,288 years old.

    And a board to fill

    Sent once, with your first pack. Every month’s stickers include one made for the board — twelve slots, and by August the whole year is on one sheet.

    A5, 300gsm, printed both sides. Year two is a new board, and the numbers carry on from where year one stopped.

    The board, front: twelve slots numbered 001 to 012, September’s filled with its stamp The board, back: the twelve grounds of year one printed in order as colour bands

    The card scans

    Every card carries a code. Scan it and that plant lands in the Floradex app marked received in the post — which is its own thing, separate from finding one outside.

    The app is free and the pack works without it. Nothing on the paper depends on a phone.

    Join the club

    Sheet 001 posts September 2026

    Leave the address the packs should go to. Nothing is charged today.

    The first packs are being printed in Barcelona. Once the sample is approved and the postage is priced, you get one email with the price and a payment link, and you decide then. No card details are taken on this page.

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