IMPORTANT NOTE: You do NOT have to register to read, post, listen or contribute. If you simply wish to remain fully anonymous, you can still contribute.
They are better with care and get pruned and so on regularly but the pink ones have been here since before me (40 years ago) and always blossom twice a year, sometimes thrice, with 200-300 blossoms.
They are so beautiful they stop traffic and have always had their own tourist fan club, usually Japanese with cameras!
The scarlet ones around my window and door are more recent (8 at present).
OK. So we have the scenario of you and Daisy May waiting whilst Paul McCartney clunked together a tune on your piano. First off; how do you know it wasn't 'Yesterday'?; and secondly did you ever sus what it actually might have been? Fascinating stories Jonathan, brilliantly conveyed, and my GOD! what a great TV show your accounts would have become. Their loss!