He didn't treat her like a hothouse flower, the way the other boys did.

With the addition of a single hothouse flower, they were striking.

He didn't know what a little love can do for a hothouse flower.

She had not been curled over the bar like a hothouse flower.

Maybe you're not just a hothouse flower as I first surmised.

They were the first hothouse flowers she had ever had.

They were pale, pretty children, like hothouse flowers reared in secret.

At the touch of a button, they blossomed like hothouse flowers.

I'm just a hothouse flower, she thought, a bit ruefully.

They stopped thinking they were hothouse flowers and had to have a special technique.