Most of our games with plants as children involved using the imagination. Unmowed fields of clover or hay were dangerous savannahs that we would crawl through on our bellies in search of lions and other wild beasts, the asparagus patch, when it had gone to seed, was the high canopy of the south American rain forest and lush moss on the ground were minature forests where fairies and gnomes lived. Life was great when you didn't have to concern yourself about keeping your clothes clean.