Few things say "Spring" in South Carolina like our azaleas. These mainstays of our lawns and gardens burst forth in their reds, pinks, lilacs, whites, and all shades in between, to say "Look at Me! I survived the winter! So did you! It's Spring!" They are such excited plants that they require multiple exclamation points when they talk to us. Everything they say is bright and cheery and showy and jubilant. And so we find ourselves with one-fourth of 2017 behind us and three-qu

It's February and the yellow jasmine is blooming in South Carolina The robins have visited, the weather is atypical and plants are budding. It's been warm, and that's a little weird. I have looked for ice and cold, as its still winter and usually we are at least chilled here. Not this year. We've had colder weather in the past in the state in February. But not this year. February here in Hannah has been spring-like. Windy, warm and not so very wet. And so I came to the coast