Thistle & Bloom
A florist's calendar, not a stock-photo grid. Thistle & Bloom runs a two-layer GPU ambient background — a slow domain-warped watercolour flow field under instanced petal particles drifting with procedural alpha falloff — above a real month-by-month cut-flower Bloom Calendar built on genuine seasonal availability data. Cormorant Garamond over Jost sits on warm cream paper with dusty-rose, sage and honey-gold accents, and the homepage runs a bespoke sequence — bouquet feature, bloom calendar, cutting-garden story — instead of the generic hero/shelf/spotlight skeleton.
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Overview
Thistle & Bloom’s homepage deliberately avoids the hero → shelf → spotlight → grid skeleton used repeatedly elsewhere in this catalogue. Instead it runs its own sequence: a “This Week’s Bouquet” recipe-card feature, a horizontal Bloom Calendar — real month-by-month cut-flower availability data in a scroll-snap strip, not a decorative grid — a “Cutting Garden” process story, then shop, press and journal. The background is a two-pass GPU ambient layer in one canvas: a slow domain-warped simplex flow field in blush-and-sage watercolour tones, plus instanced petal quads with soft procedural alpha falloff that sway, rotate and respawn as they drift. Cormorant Garamond over Jost sets a romantic-serif-against-clean-sans contrast deliberate enough to read as an editorial choice, over warm cream paper with dusty-rose, sage-leaf and honey-gold accents — a palette distinct from every other theme’s hue family in this project.
What's included
- Full theme source — every template, style sheet & script
- One-click demo importer (idempotent, no page builder)
- Live Customizer controls for copy, colours & content
- Translation-ready .pot file + RTL stylesheet
- HTML documentation + a CHANGELOG file
- Lifetime updates + 6 months support (renewable)
Specifications
| WordPress | 5.6 – 7.0 |
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| PHP | 8.0 – 8.3 |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | Translation-ready · RTL included |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
The complete, dated version history ships in the theme’s CHANGELOG file. Every purchase includes lifetime access to future updates.
