Local gardens are ablaze with color and variety. Please send us your photos too…editor@gazettejournal.net is the contact.

Asclepius or Butterfly Weed, enjoyed by a butterfly; sent by Judy Moughon of Mathews.

Lila Youkeles of Ware Neck has planted zinnias that attract butterflies.

Beautiful vinca in bloom at the home of Ginger Rowe, Gloucester.

Beverly Shoemaker enjoys the limelight hydrangeas in the front yard of her Gwynn’s Island home.

Patricia Olsen of the Glebe, Mathews, sends a photo of her hydrangeas.

Jim and Della Garrett enjoy nightly blooming of their evening primrose.

Louise Witherspoon of Port Haywood photographed two wildflowers now in bloom: soapwort or Bouncing Bet, left, and Eastern Joe-Pye weed.

Mary Sampson of Mathews is growing large, beautiful hibiscus.

Moon plant from Kathryn K. Freeman of Susan.

Martha Thompson Hudgins of Gloucester sends a photo of a zinnia, and of another zinnia that took a different form.

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