Possible Clues:

• Never-fading flower
• The way a mother was in a hurry to start a poetic flower that never fades
• "Ancient grain" that's actually a seed (... the first 6 letters of this answer)
• Ornamental plant
• Love lies bleeding, but it never fades
• A blight, bug on hot tropical plant
• How, perhaps, a parent was in a hurry to start to be forever blooming
• Never-fading flower; food colour dye
• How mother ran into her blooming hat
• Ah, that's about to spoil the insect with that bloomingthing!