Examples of flower bud in a Sentence
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This cuts off all the flower buds, wrecking your springtime flower show.
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Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
Step 2: Choose the Stem Look for a healthy stem from the current year's growth that hasn't formed any flower buds.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2024
Pruning during the growing season may risk cutting off flower buds.
—Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2024
The age-old approach to maximizing a shrub’s show is to consider when and how a shrub produces flower buds.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
The first set of flower buds develop on stems from the previous summer.
—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
The reason for this is that flower buds on these species are formed in summer and fall after blooms from the current year’s growth have faded.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024
But all those mentioned are species that set their flower buds before going dormant in the fall.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
Prune deciduous flowering shrubs, trees and perennials up until flower buds swell, but do NOT prune off flower buds.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
Step 2: Choose the Stem Look for a healthy stem from the current year's growth that hasn't formed any flower buds.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2024
Pruning during the growing season may risk cutting off flower buds.
—Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2024
The age-old approach to maximizing a shrub’s show is to consider when and how a shrub produces flower buds.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
The first set of flower buds develop on stems from the previous summer.
—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
The reason for this is that flower buds on these species are formed in summer and fall after blooms from the current year’s growth have faded.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024
But all those mentioned are species that set their flower buds before going dormant in the fall.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
Prune deciduous flowering shrubs, trees and perennials up until flower buds swell, but do NOT prune off flower buds.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
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“Flower bud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flower%20bud. Accessed 10 May. 2024.
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