Visited the Gardens of Métis located in a micro climate zone along the St Lawrence River and admired the rare and difficult to grow blue Mongolian poppies largely found in Bhutan but these do not produce opium.... In the late spring of 1922, a British Himalayan expedition, led by legendary mountaineer George Leigh Mallory, discovered the plant on their failed attempt to reach the summit of the then-unconquered Mount Everest.
