dual personalities

Peonies are my new favorite cut flowers.

I know, I know. You’re thinking, “what about the ants?”

But I’ve discovered that if you cut when the bud is just starting to open, there are no ants!

So cheer up all (if you need cheering up) and remember what Keats wrote:

But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in an April shroud;
Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,
Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,
Or on the wealth of globed peonies.

Find yourself some flowers to enjoy on this beautiful day! What are your favorites?