They are pretty words, for sure, but I'm not sure what "intricately designed blooming flowers" (baroque efflorescences) is supposed to even mean in this context.
It feels like a sesquipedalian circumlocution by an ebullient iconoclast :P
It feels like a sesquipedalian circumlocution by an ebullient iconoclast :P
And it's pretty clear that McIlroy used “efflorescence” as a metaphor for “proliferation (of features)”. This usage of “bloom” and its synonyms isn't uncommon.