Meanwhile the Countess de Courcy won the bonnet prize with flowers on the outside and the inside.
The Nobel peace prize laureate, flowers in her hair, avoided hordes of reporters in the capital Nay Pyi Taw when she used a side entrance to enter the parliament.
Stop next door at the community garden, where busy green thumbs are happy to chat about the marongay (horseradish tree) leaves, lemon grass, chili peppers, gardenia and other locally prized herbs, flowers and vegetables they raise there.
Not that growing vegetables was a chore — Clissett was a passionate gardener, who regularly won prizes at local flower shows.
Ski Joh, in charge of the ski room, raises delphiniums, won all the prizes in the flower show 3 yrs in succession.
Recently, he took third prize for "best sativa flower" in the Cannabis Cup in San Bernardino, California.
I saw the winner of the prize both garlanded with flowers and besieged by stone-throwers and mudslingers.
The program's replica of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home, which was entirely made from flowers, won prizes at the Philadelphia Flower Show and Chicago Horticultural Society.
Although prized as an ornamental flower, some people consider narcissi unlucky, because they hang their heads implying misfortune.
"To this day I don't know how he found out I prized those particular flowers so highly, or where he found several dozen of them in Krynica in mid-winter, but I must confess that I was hugely impressed.
