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Full bloom

Posted On April 28, 2021

Flora is on a blooming boom here and nearby. If you don’t see your flower here this week, please look again next week; and send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Julie Shields of Hayes sends “our first iris of the season!”
On Sunday, Reed Lawson of Mathews found a patch of common lady slipper orchid in her woods.
Knock Out rose after Friday’s rain at the home of Linda Tjossem at Hayes.
John Lee Callis of Grimstead said his azaleas are coming into bloom, adding, “My father rooted and planted the large Formosas in the mid-1960s.”
Deb Buchanan’s 27-year-old tulips are blooming at Gwynn. Her parents bought the bulbs on a trip to Michigan.
Gene and Janet Gomez of Gloucester have spectacular azaleas at their home.
Janet Clark of Hallieford sends a photo of her bleeding heart.
Dave Kingsbury said Pink Lady’s Slipper emerges every spring in Dutton.
Judy Moughon of Mathews sends a photo of Japanese Snowball viburnum.
Lilac at Walter Reed’s Birthplace, sent by Eany Oh of Achilles.
Iris from Joanne Brown.
Patricia Olsen sends a photo of her Itoh tree peony in Mathews.
Cheryl Slavnik sends a photo of one of many flowers in her yard in Gloucester Court House.
Weeping cherry in full bloom in yard of Dave and Judy Sterling of Gloucester.
Darcy O’Neil, of Gloucester, has a spectacular Lady Banks rose, shown with tulips, photographed by Linda Tjossem.
The first peony to bloom in the Vanden Bout garden at Susan.
Native big flower (double wing) silverbell sent by Alexander Wilson, Moon
Woodland flowers blooming in Rose Sullivan’s yard at Signpine, from left, rue anemone, toadshade trillium, Eastern columbine.
Anemones at the home of Louise Witherspoon, Port Haywood.
J. Bland of New York City, with roots in Gloucester, sends a photo of orchids in his Manhattan office.
Mary B. Soles of Lynchburg, formerly of Gloucester, sends an orchid photo from the library of Central Virginia Community College.
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