Garden Beauty Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Ten flowers, photographed close, one per design: a pink flowering dogwood, a rose-pink and white tulip, an allium, a pink and white Asiatic lily, a magenta dahlia, a yellow and pink American lotus, a mottled pink moth orchid, a pink and white sacred lotus, and two more filling out the booklet of 20. Shot tight enough that the petal structure fills the frame - at stamp size that is the only way a flower keeps its shape.

Ten designs in one book is the practical argument. A wedding mailing, a run of thank-you notes or a birthday list stamped from this booklet does not repeat itself, which is not true of a single-design sheet. Florists, garden centers and event planners buy them for that reason. Booklets of 20, two of each design, self-adhesive. The lotus designs are the two that surprise people - they read as a different set entirely next to the tulip and the dahlia. Forever value applies.