Delicate hydrangeas

This ring was the first hydrangea ring I made this year with thin fine silver as the petals.

The flower is made up with 3 parts as you can see and the middle circle gives the flower strength.

I feel this ring has lost its delicacy beacuse:

1) the flowers are soldered together and have become stiff

2) the flowers dont meet in a point at the middle and i feel that this looses the delicacy of the flower as on the reference i am working from each petal is delicately seperate from eachother.

Seperate petals add to the fragile feel of the handling of the flower

I looked at the below references and decided that my hydrangea flowers could feel more delicate if they were made up by seperate thin petals joining at a point in the middle of the flower.

seperate petals

experimenting with thinner petals and making some of them joined and then others attached in the middle... I like the clean white look on the silver from putting it into the acid.

creating hydrangeas from seperate petals

here are my 5 petal hydrangeas in the making, I solded each petal on last week and still need to finish the last 2.