late-flowering love

Definitions

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  • adjective of plants that bloom during the autumn

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Examples

  • However, church music, despite a late-flowering interest in organ music, did not figure greatly in his output as a composer.

    John Jeffreys obituary John Turner 2010

  • Others see it as late-flowering surrealism, a nod to Buñuel, a situationist skit, a satire on nationalism or a philosophical conceit.

    Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception; Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World Laura Cummings 2010

  • Like a great tree that had taken years to bloom, he was starting to revel in his late-flowering blossom:

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Standing no more than a foot tall, with petals crinkle-crankled along their length, they will be planted so that they emerge through late-flowering Ceratostigma plumbaginoides to cling on to a season that by now is in serious retreat.

    Gardens: The late, late, show… by the nerines Dan Pearson 2010

  • I like the late-flowering bulbs for this last wave of energy when you think the garden is done.

    Summer podding 2010

  • Cut Perennials The "Chelsea Chop" in the week of the flower show (or thereabouts) helps to keep the taller, late-flowering perennials from leaning.

    Jobs to do in May 2010

  • Gardener's notes: Pineapple liliesThe Eucomis is an easy group of late-flowering bulbs, hailing from South Africa and demanding little more than free drainage, sun and a position that doesn't lie heavy and cold in the winter.

    Summer podding 2010

  • On page 48 is a photo of late-flowering Korean chrysanthemums that is dazzling.

    Archive 2007-02-01 ricklibrarian 2007

  • On page 48 is a photo of late-flowering Korean chrysanthemums that is dazzling.

    New York Botanical Garden ricklibrarian 2007

  • Sitting alone in the shadows of a late-flowering tree, he was whittling a length of wood.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

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