Roger wrote:
[...]
In particular I have a decorative cherry tree that has been spliced
about 2M from the groung. The branches breaking out from the splice
have
a pink blossom, but from the splice down I have the white blossom of
the
'host tree'sprouting out of the trunk. Is this normal?

Just out of interest, I've just seen an interesting pink flowering
cherry here in generously tree-lined Cheltenham. It's got a number of
short shoots at intervals up the trunk, and every one is adorned with a
nice bunch of apparently the same flowers as the top growth: it looks
as though somebody's stuck them on. I was driving, so I couldn't
examine the tree, but it did look like a top graft.

--
Mike.