Possible Clues:

• Almost rather early to be in flower
• Ripening early
• Poet's blooming article supporting painter
• It's blooming early in the year for a theft in the centre!
• Blooming early on and finishing pretty early
• That pest, he is blooming early
• Mostly fairly prompt, in former times
• A blooming early male rodent
• That male pest is blooming early
• Quick once man goes beyond a creep ...