For Christmas, my best friend Usch bought me a real Ginkgo biloba leaf, copper- and silver-plated. It came on a small ribbon, to be hung as a tree ornament, but I thought "nuts to that" and bought a silver chain to thread it on so I could wear it as a necklace.
It has had so many compliments, and about half of them came when I was at the RHS Halls on Tuesday. So many people think it's a butterfly though! Most notably my mother refused to accept that it was a ginkgo leaf, and argued that it was a butterfly until my father said it looked like a Rorschach inkblot of someone killing their mother.
What do you think? Would it be more obviously ginkgo-like if it had the more "normal" bilobed leaf? I think that would make it look more butterfly-like (well, more moth-like). I really love being able to wear actual leaves as jewellery, and regardless of whether people think it's a butterfly or a ginkgo, at least people think it's a gorgeous necklace!
It has had so many compliments, and about half of them came when I was at the RHS Halls on Tuesday. So many people think it's a butterfly though! Most notably my mother refused to accept that it was a ginkgo leaf, and argued that it was a butterfly until my father said it looked like a Rorschach inkblot of someone killing their mother.
What do you think? Would it be more obviously ginkgo-like if it had the more "normal" bilobed leaf? I think that would make it look more butterfly-like (well, more moth-like). I really love being able to wear actual leaves as jewellery, and regardless of whether people think it's a butterfly or a ginkgo, at least people think it's a gorgeous necklace!
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