F is for Florimania vs Floricide

This is actually the fourth post I've written for F; having previously written F is for Friends, F is for Fantasy Necklaces and F is for Facebook and ditching all 3 posts.  Who knew F was going to be this contrary!

Trollbeads is a brand that definitely suffers from Florimania, a passion or penchant for flowers... now I like flowers, generally in their native form and planted in the ground.

Flowers in jewellery is something I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with, especially with Trollbeads.

As a general rule of thumb

Flowers depicted in Silver = Good

Flowers depicted in Glass = Bad

Except for the exceptions...

I am as contrary as F has turned out to be.

One of things I like about how Trollbeads depicts flowers in silver is they are often asymmetrical and quite detailed, on the whole they avoid the twee factor that you seem to get with the glass:

My favourite silver flower in my collection is Daisy, a long sought after bead that I love to wear on a leather with an all silver bracelet - and just happens to showcase the Elephant from last Saturday's post!

I have some other chunky flowers such as Forget me not right down to a tiny spacer called Baby's Breath.  The strange looking one on the end is designed to be worn on a Fantasy Necklace over a dangle so looks a little weird just on a horizontal rod.

L-R: Lotus flower, Forget me not, Daisy, Baby's Breath, Flower Lock, Elderflower Fantasy Pendant (splitter bead),
World Tour Sunflowers Van Gogh, Shadow Flower Pendant, 

Here are the glass flowers I have made an exception for.  I didn't realise until I was sorting through them that this mostly just applies to either green or purple glass - with one orange because I loved the background!

L-R: Aurora Flower, Purple Unique, Flowers on Indigo,
Sunrise Blossom, Pale Green Unique, Green Unique,
Green & Turquoise Unique

Actually that's a lot more than I thought I had... mmm maybe I should appraise my opinion of where I sit flower wise... nah, in the grand scheme of how many flowers Trollbeads has in it's glass collection, mine are a mere tip of the Trollbead Iceberg of Flowers*.

I also am not sure about the 2 green ones on the end, the 1st I bought because it goes so well with another bead I bought at the same time, if not for that I would never have picked it up - and the one on the end I bought for a project which hasn't worked out... I do love the light pale green one lots though!  My purple flowers I think are more about the fact I love purple than the flowers themselves although I do like all these.

And, finally, who could forget the crazy pod beads, sort of crazy flowers, these are DEFINITELY an exception, as I LOVE these!

I haven't quite reached the stage of Floricide with my glass flower collection, a few have "disappeared" from my bead box but rather than being a killer of flowers they have been moved for their own safely to be with my more flower loving bead friends.

Flowers in jewellery?  Good or Bad? Where do you sit on the Florimania vs Floricide debate?

*P.S. Okay as an Idiom that didn't make total sense given you can find them in any catalogue or online, but forgive me - this is the 4th F post I've actually written and I was losing the plot slightly!