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Meanings of early-blooming in English

Of plants that bloom during the spring.

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He and Mildred planted the sacred place thick with roses and spring-flowering bulbs.
Without a Home
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Species roses are not all spring-flowering or even shrubs.
The Guardian
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Most other spring-flowering bulbs can be planted now.
The Irish Times
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Remember those bags of spring-flowering bulbs that you enthusiastically bought earlier this year, now sadly mouldering away in some corner?
The Irish Times
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Wait until spring-flowering clematis have flowered before pruning, to give them time to replenish or you will remove flowering wood.
The Guardian
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Somewhere near them in an early-flowering yellow shrub a bee droned softly.
Short Stories of Various Types
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On some early-flowering plants, seed pods and capsules have already matured to a dry, brown state.
The Irish Times
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They all delight in cool, rather moist soil, and are of value for their early-flowering nature.
Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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It is possible to have early-flowering and late-flowering kinds follow each other, lengthening the period of display.
Independent.ie
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Team it up with early-flowering Tenby daffodils.
The Guardian
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Widespread throughout Ireland, few plants are as unassumingly charming as this hardy, spring-blooming, native perennial wildflower.
The Irish Times
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(1) The spring-blooming woody plants usually produce their flowers from buds perfected the fall before and remaining dormant over winter.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the ...
Usage of early-blooming in English
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This is a good, early-blooming and very hardy angle-worm spade, built in the Doric style of architecture.
Remarks
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And then there are those of us whose early-blooming passions remain inexplicable to all but the elitist of psychoanalysts.
The Guardian
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Paths and beds were alike overgrown with weeds, but some strong, early-blooming things were fighting for life, refusing to be strangled.
The Shuttle