Flower Power: North Korea’s flower-loving heir apparent,...

Flower Power: North Korea’s flower-loving heir apparent, Kim Jong-il, has received more than 500 species of rare plants from admirers around the world, the Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday. A Japanese horticulturist even dedicated a hybrid begonia to Kim and baptized it “kimjongilia.” In all, 2,000 plants, shrubs and trees have been sent to North Korea as gifts for Kim and his father, Kim Il-sung, founder and “Great Leader” of the communist state, the agency said. The elder Kim has nominated his son to succeed him and create the first communist dynasty.

Negative Development: For all those people who paid a whopping $3,500 in order to meet and be photographed with Princess Diana at a benefit in D.C. last month, it wasn’t quite enough. They will have to pay for the photographs. This was the dinner that several of Washington’s leading social figures boycotted because they felt the price was exorbitant. The price of the picture with the princess is an additional $25 for an 8-by-10 or $20 for each 5-by-7.

Price of Freedom: The widow of baseball great Jackie Robinson, one of the founders of the defunct Freedom National Bank, says her husband “would have been devastated” by the bank’s Nov. 13 closure after heavy losses. “Being chairman and (a founder) of Freedom was one of the major achievements of his post-baseball career,” Rachel Robinson said in New York. “He loved the bank, and worried about it a lot.”

Home Safe: Take the Taj, take the yacht, take the airline--but hands off the houses, Ivana Trump has told her estranged husband, Donald. Ivana Trump got a temporary restraining order Wednesday in New York to block her husband from using their three homes to fend off his creditors. The homes in question: an estate in Florida, a Trump Tower triplex apartment and a Greenwich, Conn., mansion. But Donald Trump’s attorney said the developer “has not taken any steps to encumber or attempt to dispose of any of the three properties.”