Early spring is characterized by gradually rising temperatures and several weeks of vivid wildflower blooms beginning in late February and into March.

The rain must have encouraged growth, for vivid reddish-purple blooms tinged the slopes, and the gray-green vegetation was brighter.

All about it grew bushes laden with purple and white and vivid pink blooms that filled the air with fragrance.

The Seat itself was at the back of the arena and high above it, but in the gathering light Honath could make out the white-furred face of the Tribal Spokes- man, like a lone silver-and-black pansy among the huge vivid blooms.

In spring, the Flower Bulb Route from Haarlem to Sassenheim is in full, vivid bloom.

Emotion is tempered, unlike that of modernist Wallace Stevens in whose "Farewell to Florida" (a century ago) "Key West sank downward under massive clouds," and who "hates the weathery yawl" and "the vivid blooms" of that city.

The garden, festive with sunflowers, pansies and other vivid blooms, has the naturalness of an English garden, with a decorative old cart filled with brilliant red geraniums, adding an artful touch to the flowering panorama.

Prairie Princess, introduced in 1972, has fragrant, vivid dark pink blooms and can grow to eight feet tall; and Prairie Star, introduced in 1975, is a fragrant white.

All at once our house has burst into vivid bloom, as sudden as the blaze of poppies in a misty Flanders field.

Domini took a sip of orange juice and gazed out over the terrace, the pool, and a hedge of waxy green hibiscus with vivid orange blooms to the city below.