1.   It was a beautiful California day, and the jacarandas were in full purple bloom.

2.   A stiff, chill wind blows off White Rock Lake, tousling the deep purple blooms of vitex shrubs and rustling the leaves of towering pecans.

3.   Children from the nearby Montessori school watched butterflies flitting above the flat-topped yellow flowers of rudbeckias and the spiky purple blooms of butterfly shrubs.

4.   Puffy purple blooms ringed a small fountain.

5.   The butterfly bushes, heavy with purple blooms, get a thorough deadheading.

6.   The deep purple blooms I haul in by the armload always seem to pleasure me more when the windows are sparkling and the piano smells of lemon oil.

7.   The tiny purple blooms yield an abundance of seed.

8.   Tiny but deep purple blooms appear on slender, tall stems in late summer and early fall.

9.   With a little attention to timely pruning and selection, gardeners could arrange to have some lavender in glorious purple bloom every month of the year.

10.   The water hyacinth, with its pretty purple blooms, grows uncontrollably and has became a veritable pest, choking up ponds and killing other marine life forms.