What is unusual about the Lloyd saga is that it had a late flowering.

ECONOMIST: George Lloyd

He left the customs service in 1979, at the age of 58, and entered into a four-decade long late-flowering career as an artist.

BBC: Obituary: George Wyllie

The six-month apple season, from spring flowering to the last harvest in late September, brings people flooding into Himachal Pradesh.

BBC: Apple harvest in the Himalayan foothills