Description
When they needed something extra fancy, they traveled from the Big Horn Basin to Los Angeles. That was where one bought a wedding dress or a hat that no one had ever seen before. When she stood in front of the display of lipstick at Bullock’s Wilshire, cars running fast outside the window, my grandmother, Delilah Hatch Brown wondered, why peonies did not have the same variety of colors. Her favorite lipstick for example, had no matching flower. Perhaps that is where she came up with the idea of crossing her plants until in the midst of her garden, she could see it: a peony that was a deep burgundy rose.
