I love roses, particularly dark red ones, though it's interesting that there are over a hundred different species being cultivated around the world.
Wow, really that's amazing. Is that your favorite flower?
I also enjoy peonies. Or water lillies. van Gogh did some beautiful work with florals. 
I love Van Gogh paintings, such a talented artist and I dont know what peonies are. I will google it.
Portraits by Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh lived during the Impressionist era. With the development of photography, painters and artists turned to conveying the feeling and ideas behind people, places, and things rather than trying to imitate their physical forms. Impressionist artists did this by emphasizing certain hues, using vigorous brushstrokes, and paying attention to highlighting. Vincent van Gogh implemented this ideology to pursue his goal of depicting his own feelings toward and involvement with his subjects. Van Gogh's portraiture focuses on color and brushstrokes to demonstrate their
words, that you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need." Further exploring the connection between man and nature, Van Gogh wrote his sister Wil, "What the germinating force is in a grain of wheat, love is in us."
At times Van Gogh was so enamored with nature that his sense of self seemed lost in the intensity of his work: "I have a terrible lucidity at moments, these days when