✨Fernfrondae✨ | Green & White Glass Teardrop Earrings with Silver Filigree

There is a brief hour in certain parts of the Faewilde when the ferns become difficult to distinguish from the rain.

It happens after a long night of mist, before the first warmth reaches the forest floor. Water gathers beneath every frond until the leaves bow beneath it, and for a little while each droplet seems to borrow something from the plant that holds it. Those nearest the stem deepen into green. Others fade through young-leaf shades toward almost colorless white, as though the fern is slowly surrendering its color to the morning.

The Faewilde calls these temporary growths Fernfrondae.

They are not quite leaves and not quite dew. Old woodland accounts describe them as small glassy pods appearing beneath mature ferns after particularly heavy mist, each surrounded by smaller faceted drops in shades drawn from the same plant. They remain until sunlight reaches them. Then the palest disappear first, followed by the greens, until only an ordinary wet frond remains and there is nothing left to prove the transformation occurred at all.

Attempts to collect Fernfrondae from the wild have therefore been largely unsuccessful. Specimens carried away before sunrise are said to lose their color by noon. One naturalist insisted that the secret was to take a little of the forest with them.

His field notes do not explain how.

Perhaps that was the point.

Some mornings, even the rain grows leaves

Care Note:

Keep the glass beads and silver-tone findings dry and away from perfume or harsh chemicals to help preserve their finish, and store them where the dangling drops cannot snag; wipe gently after wear with the polishing cloth we’ll provide with your item.