Floral fashion

A friend who lives just outside London woke up a couple of days ago to see this in her garden.

It is the floral equivalent of blackbird's "vexing woman who wears wedge-heeled strappy sandals on a day that clearly requires a heavy sweater."

I woke up a couple of days ago to this in my garden:

It is the floral equivalent of my daughter who, when she was three years old, insisted on wearing her pink tutu and delicate ballet slippers on a day that clearly required her yellow rain-slicker and gumboots.