greenZoo: Walks in a botanical garden in February 2006
... its tiny chocolate colored capsules tightly closed. Then just in time for Valentine’s Day, the capsules open to expose a nest of bright red flower buds...
curvycat's Blog
a bud tightly closed waiting for the sun it was summer I was a flower beautiful and fragile petals all intact... bereft of bloom I will wither and be gone...
Shutterbug Underexposed: Little Bee Me
I'm waiting on the fringes, like the bee, for the oportunity to get inside that closed up world my... Your bud will surely bloom into a beautiful flower...
* Pollen - (Gardening): Definition
Try transferring the pollen from the flower with a feather or camel hair... The lower portion of purple and white striped anthers are still tightly closed...
Blooming of Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at BBG
It was all about a very unusual plant, famous for the size of its bloom, bad odor, ... that only become apparent when you get very close to the titan arum...
Elisabeth C. Miller Library: Children's Books
PLANTS THAT NEVER EVER BLOOM. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1984... unfolds layer upon layer, like a flower opening its petals from a tightly closed bud...
