1.   The immanent blackthorn bloom is pushing inside tiny pink buds.

2.   Its snow-white flowers start as pink buds and open four inches across.

3.   Nary a pink bud was open.

4.   Nadezhda is a big, spicy scented blue, and Kravitsa Moskvy, the Beauty of Moscow, has pink buds that open to white.

5.   The highly fragrant display of pink buds and starry-white flowers in February requires a specific temperature range that is hard to match in most houses.

6.   There are still bits of ash on the leaves of the Japanese anemones in Battery Park, but their pink buds are swelling.

7.   This is their crucial period, after all, when their delicate pink buds are blooming and they are hungry for compost and fertilizer.