Lupins love P.E.I.'s sunny and rainy Junes. This was taken on P.E.I.'s New Glasgow Road. (Maggie Ma)
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It's lupin season on P.E.I.!
CBC News asked you, our readers, to send us your best photos of the ubiquitous ditch flowers, and we were flooded with your fantastic responses.
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Some creamy white lupins in the mix along P.E.I.'s North Shore. (Jennifer Stenhouse)
Myrick Shore in western P.E.I. (Michelle Gaudet Photography)
A dramatic shot of lupins backlit against a pink and red sky. (Montana Dianne Dunn)
Lupins climb a steep bank along a red dirt road. (Bernadeta Milewski)
Lupins sway at New London Bay. (Sandra Boulter)
The sun breaks through clouds to light up these lupins in a shore field. (Alana Daley)
Siobhán Belsher's horse Ollie looks like he is sniffing the lupins. (Siobhán Belsher)
Bees love lupins since they bloom earlier than most plants on P.E.I. These ones were snapped in Stratford, overlooking Charlottetown Harbour. (Pat Martel)
The sun lights up this stand of lupins at Mackenzie’s Brook along the Gulf Shore Parkway in Cavendish in P.E.I. National Park. (Maggie Ma)
P.E.I. artist John Cox was inspired by the landscape to paint this oil on linen. (John Frederick Cox)
You can almost smell their peppery scent! (Pam Doyle)
Lupins lit up by the sun as it sets over a lush green shore field. (Judy K. Profitt)
Sara has worked with CBC News in P.E.I. since 1988, starting with television and radio before moving to the digital news team. She grew up on the Island and has a journalism degree from the University of King's College in Halifax. Reach her by email at sara.fraser@cbc.ca.
