A flowering plant.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The flowering of antebellum culture.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Noun : Peonies were in flower. ,Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England. ,the flower of American youth. ,flowers of sulfur.    From Dictionary.com. 

I've never been able to identify the tiny, jewel-colored birds that aren't hummers but like to hang out in flowering bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page 2] Reference

The English country people call the flowering of the hawthorn "the may.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

The English country people call the flowering of the hawthorn “the may.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne]

The first half of the 17th century may be described as the flowering time of the Muslim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Of course, the flowering will be a little later than from plants raised earlier in heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

The first half of the 17th century may be described as the flowering time of the Barbary pirates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

The first half of the 17th century may be described as the flowering time of the Muslim Barbary pirates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Some in Europe call the flowering glume lower palea to distinguish it from the real palea which they call the upper palea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

They are also commonly called flowering plants, though this name might be also appropriately given to certain of the higher pteridophytes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

It was a kind of flowering of this is what it can be like.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2009] Reference

Someone mentioned Korean cinema "flowering" here in the states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warner Brothers Set to Remake Chan-Wook Park’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | /Film] Reference

But the kind of flowering he was hoping for I guess didn't flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2008] Reference

But the kind of flowering he was hoping for, I guess, didn't flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2008] Reference

One of the signs of citrus decline is heavy flowering which is followed by death of the tree in one or two years.    From Wordnik.com.  [4: Multipurpose trees] Reference

Understory components such as flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) add spring color and provide fruits and seed for birds and mammals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)] Reference

Many tree choices are available, such as flowering or oak; enter your ZIP to see which are available for your area.    From Wordnik.com.  [dealnews - Today's Edition] Reference

I can see you being spurred to action on that shade garden when the peonies stop flowering, that is when I’d do it too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Color Maroon? « Fairegarden] Reference

The effect of these novel stimuli was the remarkable cultural and intellectual flowering which is the glory of Saracenic civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New World of Islam] Reference

"We had heard it would be a parking lot, but if anything, we hope to put some beautification in, such as flowering bushes and flowers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [News from dailygate.com] Reference

To American observers, they seemed a flowering of democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosopher And The Pragmatist] Reference

At left, Ms. Carey inspected a red-flowering trumpet vine in her garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving Up On Grass] Reference

So far the flowering of good will seems to be primarily benefiting Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [A BRIDGE BUILDER] Reference

From Beijing to the boondocks, China's contemporary culture scene is flowering.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Glasnost] Reference

Today, she is surrounded by beds of flowering perennials, herbs and fragrant vines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening Without a Sprinkler] Reference

Then, because I had to leave, I placed her on the dirt of one of my flowering plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Henes: Bye-Bye Bees] Reference

To others, like San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Gary Garrels, it's "a late, great flowering.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twilight Of A God] Reference

With growth, flowering and food production controlled by lights, there is no sense of season or natural habitat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jared Braiterman: Sensing Four Seasons at a Tokyo Office Building] Reference

The best of the English roses are long flowering, scented and, when it comes to disease, willing to put up a fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [National treasures: our English roses] Reference

And largely as a result, we have seen, in the last decade and a half, the flowering of a movement for recovered memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEARNING TO HEAL] Reference

And at Anza-Borrego State Park, east of San Diego, once dusty fields are now verdant with different varieties of flowering cacti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Weather's Silver Lining] Reference

As Pai and Van Lancker stood beneath an arch of flowering branches, two friends read from Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wedding: Janine Van Lancker and Ajit Pai] Reference

The big question is whether China's cultural flowering will ultimately wither -- or be crushed -- without fundamental political reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Glasnost] Reference