Declan Murphy wrote:
> (Apologies for the crosspost)
>
> Would some kind soul identify this flowering tree for me please? It is
> about 45 centimetres high, and I've inherited it from the previous
> owner of the garden. The stem is only about 15mm thick at the base, so
> I'm assuming it was planted early last year or the year before. Thought
> it may be dead, but it began flowering about 10 days ago.
>
> http://www.declan.tv/images/what_kind_of_tree_is_this.jpg
>
> (image is 186KB)
>
> Regards Declan,
> Botanically challenged,
> Okazaki, Japan

When I first saw it, I immediately thought of a forsythia - only a
bright pink one instead of yellow.  But I googled for pink forsythia,
and while there is such a thing, it doesn't look much like your plant.
Come to think of it, the only commonality with forsythia is the bright
flowers on bare stems, the leaves coming only second later in Spring.
Fat lot of good my answer is :-)
Well done, all the same, Declan.  It looks like you've stumped a whole
newsgroup of experts (and don't include me in that).
Cat(h)