blossomless

Then the discreet automaton who had surveyed his ground, played a blossomless tuneless

Our Mutual Friend 2004

My cherished, but homely, wall flowers were dripping in the morning sunlight, and every leaf on my blossomless geraniums was carefully saturated.

The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

Overhead were tall spreading trees laden with blossomless orchids.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

Then she went slowly up and down the box-bordered walks, the full skirt of her "old lady's gown" trailing stiffly over the white gravel, her delicate face rising against the blossomless shrubs of snowball and bridal-wreath, like a faintly tinted flower that had been blighted before it fully bloomed.

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Here there were divers shrubs, among these a single rose bush, now blossomless.

Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

Certainly, I am inclined to think, if one had encountered these delicate, dusky flowers in the blossomless garden of American journalism, one would have plucked them with a very tender hand; one would have felt that here was something essentially fresh and new; here, in no extraordinary force or abundance, but in a degree distinctly appreciable, was an original element in literature.

Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879

Diana wondered at the subtle change as her friend sat in her favourite window on the morning after her return, looking dreamily out into the blossomless garden, where evergreens of the darkest and spikiest character stood up stern and straight against the cold gray sky.

Birds of Prey 1875

From the fertile fields and miles of flowers the train passed to bare, blossomless earth; from rich soil to rocks; from Kansas to Colorado.

A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874

On the slopes of the herbless and blossomless lawns,

Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound

Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873