It had been bugging me for months so I took a clipping down to the Garden Centre.
What’s it called? I asked. What’s its botanical name?
I didn’t much like the sound of it.
So I asked its common name.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, the man said.
I very much liked the sound of that.
so I went home and dubbed it with my royal ruler.
Henceforth you shall be known as Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, I announced with a clipped classy accent.
It sounded like a song.
Like something from ‘Revolver’.
John Malone 
What a perfect name for this beautiful bush that is John! I know the name of that plant, but have never known what the plant looked like. Now that I’ve seen it, I can certainly see how it got that clever name.
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it also has a beautiful fragrance; I can smell it in the evening before I close the front door but how to capture that fragrance in words? how to capture any fragrance in words 😦 😦
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I love the name for that bush!
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so do I, Beth; it’s so beautiful; I can smell its fragrance each evening and morning when I open up the house; it’s the fragrance I take to bed with me 🙂
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Brunfelsia pauciflora. LOL I can see why you veered around that one. It sounds like a witch. 🙂 The common name is so, well, uncommon and so… timeless. 😉 It’s lovely.
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that’s it 🙂 I recoiled from that soon as I heard it and I studied Latin at uni and classical Greek as a sideline but you can’t beat the English vernacular 🙂
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Love this! And what a beautiful plant!
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Okay, the plant’s name is wonderful. But “like something from Revolver”, might be the best line I’ve read in awhile.
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thank you 🙂
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if it were a song, Paul McCartney would sing it 🙂 it might appear on the new album he is bringing out 🙂
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