Description
Pretty in Pink Peony messages:
- A pink peony for your thoughts.
- Bloom where you are planted.
- When in doubt, add peonies.
- Earth laughs in flowers.
- Pink is my signature color.
- The best is yet to come.
- It was love at first sight, and love continues.
- My love costs only peonies.
- Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.
- Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. – John Lennon
- Flowers don’t tell, they show.
The most scrumptious of all flowers, a rare fusion of fluff and majesty, the pink peony is coming into bloom.
Remember the scent of peonies? Their sumptuous stunning flowers are hard to miss. Besides their large, layered flowers and sweet fragrance, peonies also have incredible staying power —they can live for more than 100 years!
‘Peonies’ by Mary Oliver
This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers
and they open —
pools of lace,
white and pink —
and all day the black ants climb over them,
boring their deep and mysterious holes
into the curls,
craving the sweet sap,
taking it away
to their dark, underground cities —
and all day
under the shifty wind,
as in a dance to the great wedding,
the flowers bend their bright bodies,
and tip their fragrance to the air,
and rise,
their red stems holding
all that dampness and recklessness
gladly and lightly,
and there it is again —
beauty the brave, the exemplary,
blazing open.
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,
with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?
See also Hummingbird & Hibiscus.