Abloom

Covered in blossoms or visibly full of fresh flowering growth.

Reach for it when painting a vivid picture of plants at their most floriferous

The old courtyard stood abloom with jasmine after the warm rain.

• everyday

  blooming

  natural growth needs familiar conversational wording

  not when Blooming can also be an intensifier in British speech and may blur the image.

• everyday

  in bloom

  plain description should take priority over poetic color

  not when In bloom can refer to only a few flowers and lacks the sense of visible abundance.

• warm

  blossoming

  fresh development and opening are central

  not when Blossoming often suggests a process, while abloom presents a completed scene.

• professional

  flowering

  the botanical stage or process matters

  not when Flowering sounds technical when the scene is meant to feel celebratory.

• formal

  floriferous

  a plant's unusually heavy flower production is the fact

  not when Floriferous is specialist vocabulary and can distract a general reader.

• bare
• withered
• barren

• abloom with flowers

  The terraces were abloom with flowers by the festival weekend.

• garden abloom

  Visitors paused beside a garden abloom with pale roses.

• hillside abloom

  A hillside abloom with poppies greeted the morning hikers.