Collection: Dogwood

There is something about Dogwood that doesn't quite fit the Royal Albert catalogue. Most of their patterns are soft. English. The gentle colour palette of a cottage garden on a mild afternoon. Dogwood is none of those things. Bold white blossoms. Rich green foliage. Brown branches moving across luminous bone china with real confidence. It stops you. It was always meant to.

It was made for British Columbia. Part of the Provincial Flowers Series, released in 1975, twelve patterns each honouring the floral emblem of a Canadian province or territory. Made in England, at St. Mary's Works in Longton, Staffordshire, as a quiet gift to a country across an ocean. The series ran until 2001. Twenty-six years of that tree on bone china, rendered on the classic Montrose shape.

The Pacific dogwood has been loved in British Columbia longer than it has been official. The province gave it legal protection in 1931. The formal designation as floral emblem came twenty-five years later, in 1956. The law came before the title. That says everything about how people felt about this tree.

A fragment of Dogwood carries all of that with it. Browse the collection and find the one that stops you in your tracks.