early-blooming

Scarlet O'Hara, an early-blooming herbaceous peony

The secret to growing fabulous peonies « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

This week I was thrilled to see a dingy skipper butterfly fluttering among some early-blooming heather, and a red squirrel watching me from an old oak tree.

Country Diary: Northumberland 2011

Abby plucked a few dried blooms from the early-blooming perennials and crushed the spent petals in the palm of her hand.

Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

Abby plucked a few dried blooms from the early-blooming perennials and crushed the spent petals in the palm of her hand.

Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

Abby plucked a few dried blooms from the early-blooming perennials and crushed the spent petals in the palm of her hand.

Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

Across the street, between two gray stone houses, there were two boxes of early-blooming red flowers flanking a narrow street, where with an almost furtive look the man in the blue silk shirt and dark-gray leather vest stepped out of sight.

The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

For the earliest display select the Roman and Paper White, which are naturally early-blooming varieties.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Paths and beds were alike overgrown with weeds, but some strong, early-blooming things were fighting for life, refusing to be strangled.

The Shuttle 1907

Very early-blooming bush of wet places, the yellow, clustered, small flowers preceding the leaves; 6 -- 10 ft. Barberry, _Berberis vulgaris.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

I have always known, dear Love, that the first gentleman was a gardener and that all men hanker after that blissful state of Adam whose only toil was to care for the world's early-blooming flowers.

The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Paul Elmer More 1900