Her father, the architect Albert Lanier, gave this particular bouquet to Asawa in May 1990 — most likely around Mother's Day. "The teucrium is a feathery gray leaf and then it has little lavender ...

Asawa had six children, so she got a lot of flowers from them on Mother's Day, too. "Her table would be like a funeral parlor," Lanier said. "Just really over the top." Asawa loved plants and ...