Possible Clues:

• Open up to Bloom about Nora's last story from the start
• Flowers on a tree/bush
• Flower order, after bereavement, placed by bishop
• Open, as a flower
• Begin to flourish, as a flower
• Flower requiring small spades digging in to come out
• British getting over defeat order something pink and frothy?
• Open into flower
• Mature crowd getting over housing deprivation
• May beauty defeat crowd circling around