11.   Its rose-pink blossoms are indeed beautiful and long-lasting in a vase, but it is not much less thorny than its naturalized cousins.

12.   Its blossoms are fuzzy and deep pink and bloom before anything else.

13.   Lavender blossoms are another possibility, maybe sprinkled on vanilla ice cream, for fragrance is an important part of taste perception.

14.   One species smells exactly like chocolate, another smells so much like orange blossoms that an actual orange blossom would be highly embarrassed.

15.   Or that this perfect blossom is it, my total yield of clematis flowers, for the whole summer.

16.   Precisely because the cherry blossoms are so ephemeral, planning a hanami party is tricky.

17.   The blossoms are beautiful, even magical, but they also are delicate.

18.   The blossoms are blue and curled up, hence the snail name.

19.   The blossoms are small and dainty, with a single rim of petals.

20.   The cherry blossoms were now mostly on the ground, spent for another year, and still beautiful.