Closer he could discern the aloe plants upon the slopes, fleshy leaves spiked like crowns and jewelled with scarlet blooms.

A single scarlet bloom in a jet black bud vase adds a dramatic note to each table.

The top of his head flowered like a scarlet bloom.

Climbing roses scrambled over the stonework around the porch, scarlet and yellow blooms drooping from the weight of water they had absorbed, petals mouldering.

It rises like a great heavy bird out of a patch of wild desert landscape: yellow-flowered brittlebush, the filmy olive-green leaves of mesquite, the scarlet blooms of the ocotillos.

The flower heads were dying back, their delicate scarlet blooms battered away by last night's rain, lying like flecks of blood on the grass.

His dark spots were big as coffee beans, a pattern that was broken here and there by an equally large scarlet bloom.

She had chosen so to depict two scarlet blooms, her nipples at their centers glistening as if tiny shards of gemstone were mixed with the pigment.

Outside Public School 33 in Queens Village, the only sense of crowding is a bush loaded with scarlet blooms.

If one is lucky, one can also come upon the large scarlet blooms of the Rose of Venezuela 'Asoke Sapun' Brownea grandiceps.