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as in unfolding
to produce flowers
the plant will keep flowering if you water it and regularly cut off the dead blossoms
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Recent Examples of flowering
Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 28 Feb. 2023
If the roses are grafted, non-flowering rootstock suckers could be taking over the plants, although this would tend to occur more sporadically on a couple of plants in a large planting of roses, versus all of the plants.
—Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2021
Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2025
The Spanish cricket team anticipates the flowering of Spain’s Euro 2024 winning national soccer team, two whose young stars are Nico Williams, who was born to Ghanian parents, and Lamine Yamal, whose father is Moroccan and mother from Africa’s Equatorial Guinea.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Dec. 2024
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Why Grow Moss in a Garden? Mosses are non-flowering plants that produce spores rather than seeds.
—Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 28 Feb. 2023
If the roses are grafted, non-flowering rootstock suckers could be taking over the plants, although this would tend to occur more sporadically on a couple of plants in a large planting of roses, versus all of the plants.
—Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2021
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Salt exposure may also dry out flower and leaf buds and interfere with flowering and fruiting the following season.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2025
The Spanish cricket team anticipates the flowering of Spain’s Euro 2024 winning national soccer team, two whose young stars are Nico Williams, who was born to Ghanian parents, and Lamine Yamal, whose father is Moroccan and mother from Africa’s Equatorial Guinea.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flowering
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At the time, Burr was receiving briefings and involved in conversations suggesting the country faced a burgeoning health crisis that could hurt the economy.—
Nicholas Fandos,
BostonGlobe.com,
15 May 2020
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After the last vote on March 2 ended in a stalemate, Netanyahu and former military chief Benny Gantz agreed late last month to try to form a unity government because of the burgeoning coronavirus crisis.—
Time,
Time,
20 Apr. 2020
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Altadena, for instance, home to some of the West Coast’s most historic and flourishing Black middle-class neighborhoods, was decimated by the area wildfires.—
Jerel Ezell,
TIME,
28 Jan. 2025
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Rather like Sansa Stark herself, the Game of Thrones alum who's had the most flourishing post-Westeros career might just be Sophie Turner.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
31 Dec. 2024
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The buzz all day seem optimistic, a sign of India’s maturation of a leading art market hub.—
Anindo Sen,
ARTnews.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Garrison Brothers is known for its bold Texas bourbon, releasing various expressions with outsized flavors that are the result of the distillery’s use of various barrel sizes for maturation and the particular climate in which the whiskey matures.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
6 Feb. 2025
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Serbia’s authoritarian leader should be riding high, lifted by economic growth that is four times the European average, falling unemployment and steadily rising wages.—
Andrew Higgins,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Water sparingly until the plant begins active growth, then resume regular watering and start fertilizing.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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Combined with the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, these developments have dealt a serious blow to Iran’s ability to project power beyond its borders.—
Abbas Al Lawati,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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Although the United States government had partly funded buprenorphine’s development as a treatment for opioid addiction, France was one of the first countries to most fully exploit the drug’s potential.—
Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Flowering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flowering. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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