Spring Ephemerals & Their Native Insects

This is a limited edition collection of one of a kind handmade sterling silver jewelry celebrating the most fleeting and extraordinary relationships in the spring woodland. Each piece was made entirely from scratch in my little studio in the woods of southern New Hampshire, formed from melted sterling silver and shaped entirely by hand.
 
Spring ephemerals are wildflowers that live on the edge of time. They bloom for just a few precious weeks each spring before disappearing back into the forest floor until next year. And the native insects that depend on them are just as remarkable. Most spring ephemerals have native pollinators that depend solely on their pollen and nectar to feed their young, timing their entire lifecycle around a bloom window that lasts only weeks. The spring ephemeral depends on that native insect to pollinate its flowers. The native insect depends on that spring ephemeral to feed its babies. A mutualistic relationship where both benefit, and where losing one means losing the other.
 
In this collection you will find handmade sterling silver jewelry inspired by bloodroot, spring beauty wildflowers, trout lilies, rue anemone, and round leaved violets alongside the native insects and creatures that cannot live without them. Goldenrod crab spiders, spring beauty mining bees, bee flies, and ants doing the quiet and essential work of planting the forest through myrmecochory. Every piece tells a real nature story and every piece is one of a kind. When it finds its home it will never be made again exactly like that.
 
This collection was made for the nature obsessed. For the people who stop on a woodland trail to look closely at a wildflower. For the ones who already know what myrmecochory means, and for the ones who are about to find out.