Blossoming

Verb

1. Present participle of blossom

Full definition of blossoming

Noun

1. The act or process by which something blossoms.
• 2009, March 8, Pico Iyer, Crimes of Innocence, “The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring.