Flowering

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of adorning with flowers.

II. Flowering ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Flower.

III. Flowering ·noun The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.

IV. Flowering ·adj Having conspicuous flowers;

— used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, ·etc.