“It’s a flower. It’s a box. Hence the name… Flower Box!”
Flower Box is a new series of modular boxes that look like flowers and store flower remedies and essential oils. The keyword here is “modular”. Flower Box can be upgraded with add-ons and expansion kits to change the look of the flower. The first two expansion kits – called “petal packs” – were released alongside of the central flower bud / box that holds 35 bottles without add-ons. Or 25 bottles with petals or leaves attached.
The purpose of Flower Box goes beyond simple storage. The idea is for practitioners to add Flower Box into their flower arrangements and mix it in with their indoor plants to create a stunning visual effect in the clinic, home, demonstration or even, shop window.
The objective is to encourage people who work with plant-medicines like flower remedies or essential oils to “think about the plants inside the bottles”. And also encourage people who use plant remedies to work with live plants as part of their practice and routine. The exact reasons why will be outlined in my book on Clinical Flower Therapy ( scheduled for 2026 release. ) Suffice to say that it is important to work with live plants and raw plants material when working with plant remedies.
Flower Box is a reminder of the nature you are interacting with. While also being a beautiful, floral artwork that brightens up the room.
I’ve had the idea for Flower Box for quite some time but only started actively working on them about a month ago. In fact, the idea to have “a box that showed off the flowers inside it” has been on my mind since the early days of the Skyflowers Project.
The previous cardboard box design that I replaced with 3d printed boxes that I design and manufacture myself featured a plant that was wrapped around the whole box. Like all of the artwork and photographs you see, I designed the last box myself. But I was limited in how “wild” a design I could create because I was working with cardboard and outsourcing the manufacture.
Shifting to 3d printing has changed all of that. I can now prototype a design idea in a few hours, print it and have a functional product on my desk the same day. In any color I choose. That kind of flexibility has allowed me to create a catalogue of about 50 designs ( all available ), with the latest series of packaging called “Flower Box”.
When I started out in 3d CAD design and 3d printing, the first designs were all “basic squares”. While I was learning the software and discovering better ways to design models for 3d printing, I created square boxes and played around with a few circular designs.
After finishing with on the “Pro Box” series, which is designed to look professional and comes in a variety of capacities – up to 25 bottles – I created the “Compact Box” series. These were designed to be space-saving after I had a customer request a box but she didn’t have a lot of space. So I scaled down the 24cm x 24cm Pro Box to fit in a 17cm x 17cm footprint so she could put it on a shelf or inside a drawer.
Once work had finished on these, I decided to create something more complex. Another square design. But this time a color-coded, modular box designed to be used in a classroom. The design involved a baseplate… and individual color-coded boxes for each bottle that you could detach. The “Classroom Box” also had a number of add-ons that you could swap into the base plate. Thereby creating a fully customized toolbox, with unique moulds to hold a variety of tools you would find in a natural health clinic.
Which leads me to the design of Flower Box. A new series to celebrate the 28th anniversary of The Skyflowers Project.
Being a person with a mania for plants, plants have always featured in my work. Naturally they appear in all artwork for the Skyflowers but I also use them for workshops and live presentations. My slides always have plants to illustrate key points, but when I can, I like to bring in actual plants into the presentation to hand around in the audience while I present the lesson about it.
Visually seeing the plants and physically handling them is important in the learning process for plant-medicine. So now that I have developed my design skills over the past year in CAD design and 3d printing ( which are both tricky disciplines ), I’m now turning my mind to producing modern art.
Modular, modern art that you can change to suit your mood. Flower Box can be a sunflower one day… and a Protea the next. I have a number of designs on the drawing board for different expansion packs and plan to release them periodically.
In other words, Flower Box is something I plan to develop as a stand-alone product line that you can collect. Without giving too much away, some of the current designs I’m working on are. .. a ruffled, Savoy Cabbage… a Daffodil… and also a series of “cascading” flowers and leaves. Visual add-ons are just the beginning. I plan to create flower vases and planter pots that lock-into the base unit.
There are about 6 or so designs on the drawing board that I plan to release this year, about a month apart. Some of the designs are quite tricky so they will take some extra time to develop. But, if I pull it off, the visual impact will create a “wow” effect. Especially the cascading flowers and leaves. These should look amazing but they are difficult to design.
So look out for them.
Flower Box is now available in the shopping cart. You can buy the base unit by itself. Or with one of the two expansion packs. Alternatively, you can choose a Flower Box when you buy any one of our box sets. So you can now choose from 4 different box designs – Pro Box. Compact. Box Classroom box. And now, Flower Box.
On top of this, you can choose from a wide range of colors. As I 3d print these myself, I can make them in any color you choose. I’ve spent months sourcing the colors and have created a curated list of color schemes that work well together.
You get to design your very own Flower Box and “choose a color scheme that suits your brand, mood or room”. Choose the color. Pick the petals. And I’ll manufacture it for you.
Flower Box is now available to order. I will be selling them via various online retailers like eBay, Amazon and possibly Etsy, there may be delays with receiving your order when those outlets go live. I have one of each color in stock but these stocks may not last long.
As an aside before I finish this article, when I started my career, little did I release that the custom-made set of flower remedies I made from scratch… would become a company. I also didn’t realize that not only would I design my own flower remedies… but I would later design the box they go in!
That’s all for now.
I’m going back to designing the “Savoy Cabbage” add-on for Flower Box. So expect that in a week or two once I’ve perfected the design.
Thank-You
Before I go, I wanted to say “thank-you” to all the people who have supported my research project over the past 28 years. The list of names is long. Even if you’ve just bought an essence to try, that means a lot. The money you spent helps me sit at my desk and design flower remedies, research plant archetypes and develop “the future of plant medicine”.
That’s not marketing-hype as you will see when Clinical Flower Therapy: 1st Edition and the follow-up Teachers Edition come out next year and in 2027. Those are long projects so I also work on smaller projects like Flower Box. But in the background, I am churning out the pages of a book I hope will still be used in 100 years time.
Thanks for your support and helping me to shape the future of plant-medicine.
Thanks for reading.
