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Well, the only noun phrase I see that makes sense is: "dark purple irises."

The first one isn't a noun phrase, and the third one would have needed revising for it to make any sense. 

There is only one noun phrase in the picture. That is, your answer would be "dark purple irises". "Slowly but surely" is not a noun phrase, but an adverbial phrase and "with the purple petals" is a prepositional phrase.

In this way, the complete sentence would be as follows: The flowers, dark purple irises, bloom every year in April. This NP is an apposition as the two nouns refer to the same thing (flowers/irises) and are placed immediatly after the other with no conjunction between them.

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