Beauty surrounds us in May. We received so many beautiful photos of flowers that we are forced to hold some for another week. Please be patient, and send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Shirley Ryan of Port Haywood sends a photo of her first peonies in bloom.

Kathy Skelley of Gloucester sends a photo of Solomon’s Seal thriving in her shade garden.

Cactus flower in spring from Gabby West at Tidewater Tropicals.

Rev. and Mrs. Ward Warren of Hayes, have beautiful Japanese Snowball bushes full of blooms.

Carol Murdock of Mathews said her violas illustrate the axiom “bloom where you are planted.”

Herbert Fitzgerald of Gloucester sends a photo of his “big and pink” azaleas.

Marty Ross sends a photo of Marguerite daisy (Anthemis) “Susanna Mitchell,” showing off in her garden.

A late-blooming azalea in the garden of Ginger Rowe, Gloucester.

Beautiful, colorful clematis grown by Julie Shields of Hayes.

The Dublin rose in bloom, south wall, at Ed and Bobby Ray’s ho...