blooming
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Then we saw one person crouching down on a small steep hill, and we immediately stopped and asked if the desert lilies were blooming.
From Los Angeles Times
“The freshness of an orchard? The warmth of a blooming flower garden? The windswept allure of the coastline?”
In one body of work, concrete peaches have pits of engines, and in another, massive fruit sculptures are decadent and disgusting in their dreamy blooming mold.
From Los Angeles Times
Now, Sac City sports 70 blooming creations, including entries from the Red Hats women’s group, the sheriff’s office—and the police.
But in the early 1920s, Ecke’s son, horticulturalist Paul Ecke Sr., learned a secret way to create a compact single-stemmed plant with many blooming branches that could be grown in pots indoors.
From Los Angeles Times
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