1.   And flowering trees and shrubs still mark the fleeting nature of life.

2.   A flagstone path through colorful flowers leads to a small water garden with Japanese maples and flowering cherry trees.

3.   But then early April is the season of the flowering trees, the many varieties of Oriental cherry and magnolia.

4.   De Pan is in Bosch en Duin, outside Utrecht, a lively university city with innumerable cafes and flowering chestnut trees along its central canal, the Oudegracht.

5.   Forcing twigs and branches of late-winter flowering trees and shrubs into an early bloom is easy.

6.   Maybe what you do on Ohanami is lie under a flowering cherry tree and look up serenely at the pink blossoms.

7.   The field is lined with beautiful flowering cherry trees, now past their prime.

8.   The most common flowering ornamental trees in Boston are dogwoods, cherries, flowering crabtrees, and magnolias.

9.   The flowering stems arise directly from the tree trunk and never from the branches or amongst the leaves like other flowering trees.