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 peony is one of the most structurally complicated flowers we make. Hundreds of petals. 5.25 inches across. One screw. No water. It has earned the attitude.