Sentence examples for orchids bloom from inspiring English sources
Some orchids bloom at night, their fragrance wafting toward besotted moths.
He would love to have an orchid bloom for him above the Arctic Circle, but he never gets up there except on summer cruises, the orchids bloom in January and February, usually when the ship is in the tropics.
The race, one in a series of 12 trail events organized this year by the Ohio River Road Runners Club, features a course of twisting trails through an old-growth woodland preserve where wild turkeys roost and orchids bloom with the warming days of spring.
The sights here change with the seasons: Rusty-purple chatterbox orchids bloom in the summer; tiny native crab apples hang from the trees in early fall.
While the views from the summit are spectacular, it's Kinabalu's natural diversity that makes it memorable: pitcher plants and orchids bloom alongside the trail, including many species found nowhere else in Borneo.
Orchids bloom throughout the year in cypress heads, and bromeliads appear in many varieties; on Fakahatchee Strand alone, thirteen species have been documented.
There are sensual pleasures, too, like inhaling thousands of orchids blooming in the Orchid Wing.
(And when you plant with a lot of love, evidently, you can smell it: the orchids blooming right outside the showers are no accident, he adds).
Although the orchids bloomed in June, the tiny purple flowers lasted for only a few weeks, each with five loose petals surrounding a tubular petal with a ruffled lip revealing dark, narrow strips inside.
Our music used to be played by skilled orchestras; intelligible singers rendered tunes about dancing in the dark while orchids bloomed in the moonlight and nightingales sang in Berkeley Square and stars fell on Alabama -- silly sentiments, but carried along by intelligent melodic phraseology, and if the words were doggerel they were often wonderfully compelling.
I had seen photographs of the pollinator, a digger wasp, thin-waisted, striped with yellow, and bearing only a passing resemblance to a fly orchid bloom.
