We are having a particularly good spring for blossom which in March is mainly species in the Prunus genus. I don't know what variety of Plum this is but I know exactly what the plums will taste like. 

 A plum tree grew in our garden as a child, laden every summer with delicious fruit. As the years went by it slowly succumbed to age until only a hollow stump remained. Eventually that too fell over. But the root stock lived on and a decade or two later a spindly sapling appeared which prospered.

 One summer's day I noticed it bore a few plums and I plucked one. To my astonishment the taste and texture took me back in time and for that moment I was a child again.