The owners of this showy pink marvel are far, far away in Florida. Bill and Anne won't be back for a while and by then this flowering crab will have dropped its petals and regressed to its ordinary summer state. The urban legend surrounding this planting holds that Bill and Anne's Minnesota friends hoped to lure the snowbirds home sooner and so installed this tree to encourage them. So far it's only the neighbors who can enjoy this early bird. There's still time, Bill and Anne, . . . look closely and you'll see many buds left to burst.
