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Deadheading encourages chocolate cosmos plants to produce more flower buds, keeping plants productive.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
The fact that the Sherman Oaks crape myrtles were winter-pruned could not have had any effect on flowering since crape myrtles are among those trees whose flower buds are formed in spring or even later in the growing season.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
It’s topped with lavender flower buds that bloom all around Livermore ($18).
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Gentle thinning of a magnolia will remove a few flowers, while cutting back all the branches to reduce its size can remove many of the flower buds, resulting in fewer flowers next spring.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
The fact that the Sherman Oaks crape myrtles were winter-pruned could not have had any effect on flowering since crape myrtles are among those trees whose flower buds are formed in spring or even later in the growing season.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
It’s topped with lavender flower buds that bloom all around Livermore ($18).
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Gentle thinning of a magnolia will remove a few flowers, while cutting back all the branches to reduce its size can remove many of the flower buds, resulting in fewer flowers next spring.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for flower bud
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“Flower bud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flower%20bud. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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