The riot of blooms in a nearby tulip poplar became a visual touchstone for my stay.
Efforts to eliminate waterway dead zones and algal blooms nationwide have focused on pollution from manure.
They also absorb pollutants that can cause algae blooms and help clear the water.
The rain will benefit the flowers and the blooms could be around longer than usual.
But algae began creeping back in the mid-1990s, and the blooms have gotten progressively bigger.
These blooms indicate proliferation of phytoplankton that is fundamental to ocean life and climate regulation.
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Unlike other algae blooms, red tides are not caused by pollution, the wildlife service said.
The blooms usually develop 10 to 40 miles offshore, away from man-made nutrient resources, it added.
If you miss the blooms here you might be able to catch them a little further north.
Nutrient runoff also is causing toxic algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico's Barataria Estuary, she said.
Its lushness is a striking contrast to the younger succulent garden, with its spiky shapes and otherworldly blooms.
Heroic efforts to remove toxic algae blooms from the rowing course do not amount to a new environmentalism.
In that spirit, his artistry has grown to encompass tableware in the form of leaves, melons and blooms.
The import of flowers, for example, was badly hit with growers having to throw out tons of rotting blooms.
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Among the victims: Mississippi and Arkansas catfish farmers who kept Asian carp in their ponds to control algae blooms.
Now, the fine ceilings have been re-gilded and the vases filled with blooms and the bars stocked with champagne.
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Its creator, Jean-Claude Ellena, was inspired by his own garden, which blooms with white and blue irises in spring.
The botanists believe that about 46 million years ago, the plants' blooms began to evolve at an accelerated pace.
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There would have been two main advantages to having such large blooms, Professor Davis told the BBC News website.
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It also causes blooms of toxic algae that have closed beaches, made people ill and killed fish and pets.
Steps were then taken to reduce nutrient run-off into the lagoon from industry, agriculture and sewage, and the blooms stopped.
Much is washed off by rain, ending up in local watercourses where dissolved nutrients can cause algal blooms and kill fish.
And the timing couldn't be better: The lovely, ephemeral scent of iris conjures spring blooms and the not-too-distant promise of summer.
Experiments that add iron to the sea have had mixed success, though, and may cause harmful algal blooms and ocean acidification.
She adds that butterflies prefer blooming plants that produce nectar, and are particularly attracted to tiny blooms on plants like lantanas.
Creating gigantic algal blooms risks using up all the oxygen in large parts of the ocean, killing anything else that lives there.
Phytoplankton usually blooms in the spring, but dies back in the summer.
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Spring blooms, deep and blanketing winters, glorious summers and stunning autumns.
In the flower beds, coneflowers such as echinacea and rudbeckia turn into food as the blooms go to seed this time of year.
Pierce sees the algae blooms and grasses cited in the report as he travels a 190-mile stretch over the spring, summer and fall.
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