Definitions
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- adjective of plants that bloom during the autumn
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Examples
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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
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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
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Like a great tree that had taken years to bloom, he was starting to revel in his late-flowering blossom:
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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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
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I like the late-flowering bulbs for this last wave of energy when you think the garden is done.
Summer podding 2010
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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
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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
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On page 48 is a photo of late-flowering Korean chrysanthemums that is dazzling.
Archive 2007-02-01 ricklibrarian 2007
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On page 48 is a photo of late-flowering Korean chrysanthemums that is dazzling.
New York Botanical Garden ricklibrarian 2007
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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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