Things are blooming nicely, until (see below) a tomato hornworm gets into a plant. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

A Passion flower blooming and producing fruit on the deck of Kathy and Ralph Angel.
Crepe Myrtle, ready for pollinators, photographed by Cheryl Battle, Bavon.

Volunteer impatiens add color to Karen Borja’s garden in Gloucester.
Butterfly ginger sent by Ceci Brown of Gloucester.
Hardy hibiscus blooming in Linda Dalgety’s Port Haywood yard.

Linda Lee Earl of northern Gloucester had three simultaneous flowers on night blooming cereus.
Rose “Robusta” from Yana Hare’s garden in Hayes.
Volunteer marigolds at the home of Martha Thompson Hudgins, Gloucester.

Gordonia lasianthus or Loblolly Bay sent by Judy Moughon of Mathews.
A tomato hornworm caused tremendous damage to a newly planted hummingbird vine at the home of Pat Rawls, Foster.
Flowers from Ginger Rowe’s garden in Gloucester.

Meg Sherertz of Hayes photographed a grass skipper drinking fro...