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Meanings of early-flowering 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
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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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        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 ...
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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
        Usage of early-flowering in English
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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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        It is of stout growth, often reaching to 20 feet in height, and belongs to the early-flowering section.
        Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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        The early-flowering Wallflowers will, in mild winters, bloom from January till April, or even as early as Christmas.
        The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots / 16t...
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        Pruning rules Prune out flowering wood as soon as it is over on early-flowering shrubs, such as philadelphus and deutzia.
        The Guardian
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        An interesting, early-flowering species.
        Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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        It is a feature in early-flowering magnolias to bloom on naked branches, so you can appreciate their blossom to the full.
        The Guardian
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        In fact, with his early-flowering genius and disastrous frailty, he could almost be regarded as a kind of English Rimbaud, although without Rimbaud's bisexual ferocity.
        The Irish Times
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        True, for those of us with small gardens, finding space for these ultra early-flowering species can be challenging but there are clever ways around this.
        The Irish Times
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        As it leafs out fairly late, it is nice to underplant with early-flowering bulbs - I have a carpet of self-sowing, light blue Scilla bithynica.
        The Guardian
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        Also look out for lovely early- flowering H x ericsmithii.
        The Irish Times
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        Early-flowering geraniums and their fellows that have already bloomed can be cut back hard.
        The Guardian