Pewter Blue Zinderella Zinnia

Zinnia meaning is one of those things people look up after receiving one and not quite being able to explain why it was chosen. This variety has made itself harder to explain than most. The Pewter Blue Zinderella Zinnia is a ceramic wall flower — handmade by Chive from a cultivar that took the original uncomplicated zinnia and put it through an experience: pewter blue, the color of old mirrors, of weather on water, of a room where someone has recently made a consequential decision and the air has not yet recovered. What a zinnia means, traditionally, is endurance and lasting affection. What Zinderella means is something you arrive at on your own. It does not water itself, because it does not need to. It does not fade, because it is ceramic. It ships in a gift box, ready to give at whatever milestone it lands on. The Pewter Blue Zinderella Zinnia is carried by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.