1.   The sickly-sweet smell of sewage from leaking pipes mingles with the scent of fresh cherry blossom.

2.   But Diane Meehan also puts her lavender to use in the kitchen, flavoring chicken, beurre blanc or a salad tossed with fresh blossoms.

3.   Dried hibiscus flowers make a fine tea, and the fresh blossoms are edible.

4.   In this former communist state, Fastech is a fresh blossom of the fledgling free market.

5.   It was a time of sweet-smelling scents of hay and fresh fruit surrounding the aroma of fresh orange blossoms and newly cut lawns.

6.   Or as invisible and exotic as the jasmine in Jasmine Jazz, in which tea is layered overnight with fresh jasmine blossoms for seven nights.

7.   The flowers provide interest throughout the summer, first as fresh blossoms and later as dried flower heads.