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On this valuable Saturday-morning time slot a couple of weeks before the primary, we were in a small flower shop in a pedestrian-unfriendly area with few, if any, walk-in customers to meet and greet.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

An example of this is that plants that the bees are dependent upon being in flower when the bees aren’t around.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Every flower was talented and convinced it could win.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

They have nothing except each other, their love symbolized by a red flower that Orpheus offers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

I pray the sunshine in Cuba will allow a little flower to grow in me.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

They might improve dinner—herbs, honey, good bread, something pickled—or have nothing to do with it: flowers, jam, a spice blend, a VHS tape, an embroidered denim vest.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Wealthier neighborhoods tend to have better-managed green space, with the leafy parts of trees growing far above lawns or planted flowers.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

"It has been an extremely tough growing season with water shortages, drought, no rainfall, slow germination in the heat, flowers going over too quickly," explains Rebecca, from Lilac and Lace Floral Design.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“I’m filled with pure joy and gratitude knowing my day has come to receive flowers of this magnitude for the legacy I’ve left within the game of basketball and the Sparks organization.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Christopher looked around, up at the towering black trees, across to the flowers.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

A veil rested on their heads, held by a satin flowered headband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Each generation of banana plants had to grow for at least 12 months before researchers could test them for disease resistance and continue breeding once they flowered.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026

Still, at the time of the January fires, the semi-deciduous trees had not yet flowered, which likely minimized the damage they suffered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

Finally, he pulled a white and blue flowered vase from the pile of debris that stayed together.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025

She was wearing a long flowered skirt and a bright red blouse, and she had a butterfly in her hair.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

They support an estimated 75% of global crop pollination, and nearly 90% of all flowering plants.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

"Seagrasses are the only marine flowering plants," he explains as we slowly work our way through the seagrass meadow.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

They grow in both a leaf stage, when they resemble small trees, and in a rare flowering stage that may have gaps of several years or even a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Though many refer to these plants as “flowers,” they are actually an “inflorescence,” a flowering structure containing hundreds of smaller blooms inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Every Christmas since, she sent my parents a gift box containing hot sauce, a flowering cactus, and a photograph of Mrs. Watson and herself in front of some national monument.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides