Buttercup Yellow Gay Paree Peony

Gay Paree is how someone who has very strong feelings about croissants refers to a city they have never visited. The peony has been to Paris. It is not telling anyone what it thought. It came back buttercup yellow and has been on walls ever since with the self-possession of someone who returned from a trip and decided not to explain the trip to people who hadn't taken it. The Gay Paree Peony The peony is already one of the most structurally complicated flowers in the English Garden Collection — hundreds of petals layered into something that looks impossible until you look at it long enough and then it looks inevitable.