Sunflower Brooch rosemary Materials: The Irish thorn leaves

Materials: The Irish thorn leaves are cast in bronze

Materials: The birch ring is cast in sterling silver with copper highlights

A large number of stories and myths surround the plant

Feminine in nature and associated in folklore with Venus

It is also one of the commonest herbs in European cookery and used for flavoring many dishes

Sunflower Brooch rosemary Materials: The Irish thorn leavesThe sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large flowering head, and its name is derived from the flower's shape and image, which is often used to capture the sun. The plant has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves, and circular flower heads. The heads consist of many individual flowers which mature into seeds, often in the hundreds, on a receptacle base. From the Americas,