“We travelled north from London together on the Caledonian Sleeper. The tree got the upper bunk, I had the lower one.”

On 9 August 1945, the second – & so far, last – nuclear weapon used in war fell on Nagasaki. One of the few things to survive the bomb was a persimmon tree. In 2002, the poet Gerry Loose brought a sapling from that tree to Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/travels-with-a-tree/