Sunshine is abundant, and the floral world is responding in many shapes and colors. Pleasesend your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Joy Albertson of North has waited years for her Aztec lily to bloom. This year she was rewarded.A rainbow of calla lilies, left, and balloon flowers, from Linda Dalgety of Port Haywood.Gardenias at the home of Lewis and Zelma Fletcher, Hayes.Shasta Daisy at the home of Laura Eggleston.Martha Frame of Cobbs Creek grows her garden in containers.Hydrangeas at the home of Robin Dehoux of Moon.Astilbe, left, and wax begonia at the home of Martha Thompson Hudgins, Gloucester.Black-eyed Susans at the home of Joan Miles in Mathews.Hydrangeas in full bloom at the home of Ginger Rowe of Gloucester.Amaryllis bed at the home of Bill and Betty Edwards in Mathews.A wall of hydrangeas at the home of Kathryn Knight Freeman of Susan.Yarrow, phlox, and larkspur, left, and nasturtiums at the home of Louise Witherspoon, Port Haywood.Indian summer sunflowers at the ho...