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Bit by bit, she filled planting boxes and dug up lawn to transform her yard into what the tour describes as a tangle of sweet-smelling flowers — mounds of sweet peas, dangling wisteria, David Austin roses and scented geraniums along with dahlias, poppies, foxgloves, larkspur, blue bachelor buttons and Queen Anne’s lace.

Marriott was quoted a price of $250 each for six arrangements from a florist; instead, she spent $550 on several dozen white ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, spray roses and large roses.

Everyone in her group was laden with two or three cone-shaped bundles — a couple dozen each of ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, spray roses and large roses in ivory and white.

Before long it bloomed with poppies, buttercups and Queen Anne's lace.

Hockney’s “Queen Anne’s Lace Near Kilham” has a price estimate of $8 million-$12 million and Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture “Femme de Venise III” $15 million-$20 million.