yellow polyanthus

A manufactured plant for winter colour, I know, but still so pretty and so welcome in this extended winter.

polyanthus
buoyant, cheerful
embellishing, decorating, adorning
being gay, jocose, blithesome, lightsome or blithe
cowslip
jackass
a ninny, noodle, sap, booby or nincompoop
gawking, repudiating, denying
foolish, daft
cuckoo

- Judy Vaughan