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Meanings of early-blooming in English

Of plants that bloom during the spring.

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        Examples for "spring-flowering"
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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
        3
        Most other spring-flowering bulbs can be planted now.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Remember those bags of spring-flowering bulbs that you enthusiastically bought earlier this year, now sadly mouldering away in some corner?
        The Irish Times
        5
        Wait until spring-flowering clematis have flowered before pruning, to give them time to replenish or you will remove flowering wood.
        The Guardian
        1
        Somewhere near them in an early-flowering yellow shrub a bee droned softly.
        Short Stories of Various Types
        2
        On some early-flowering plants, seed pods and capsules have already matured to a dry, brown state.
        The Irish Times
        3
        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
        1
        Widespread throughout Ireland, few plants are as unassumingly charming as this hardy, spring-blooming, native perennial wildflower.
        The Irish Times
        2
        (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
        1
        This is a good, early-blooming and very hardy angle-worm spade, built in the Doric style of architecture.
        Remarks
        2
        And then there are those of us whose early-blooming passions remain inexplicable to all but the elitist of psychoanalysts.
        The Guardian
        3
        Paths and beds were alike overgrown with weeds, but some strong, early-blooming things were fighting for life, refusing to be strangled.
        The Shuttle