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"old flowers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe flowers that have been around for a long time, such as the flowers in a garden full of perennials. For example, "The old flowers in the garden are starting to bloom again."
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Thus, every morning someone had to pick off the old flowers.
Redefine the edges of your lawn, trim your hedges, trim straggly stems and deadhead old flowers.
"I began to realize how many of the old flowers had fallen out of the trade," she said of her research trips to museum gardens like Sturbridge Village and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House.
Just before the jury arrived, the victim's husband, Victor Herrera, placed a fresh bouquet of carnations, daisies and roses atop a memorial of old flowers, a child's shoe, toy bears and rosaries that has remained untouched beneath the Gowanus Expressway since the accident.
Four-day old flowers produced 37% and 59% less volatiles in double and simple flowers compared to freshly cut flowers.
Old flowers usually fall off the spikes quickly, with up to 25 large beaked follicles developing.
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It's so beautiful, in the old flower market".
Mosquito larvae flourish in puddles, even inside old tyres or old flower pots.
Once yours has finished flowering, cut off the old flower stem at soil level.
Let's hope the Scousers treat the sensitive old flower more gently next time.
Delphiniums may give a second late show if you cut down the old flowered stems.
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