This is one of my very favorite times of the year.  Everything is really starting to come out here in South Carolina.  We've got White Dogwoods blooming strongly right now, and, of course, one of my favorite blooms of the year is out in force right now: Wisteria.  Around here we have Wisteria growing everywhere.  It peeks out from somewhere in almost every yard, it seems, and many of the pine groves around town have at least some of the amethyst or lilac-blue blooms on almost every tree.  Wisteria hangs off of trees all up and down the streets in the older parts of town, and sometimes a strong wind will dislodge small showers of the small purple petals.  The Wisteria bloom gets started across town, usually over the course of just a couple of weeks, just when the weather really starts to turn for the better.  The first few picnics and hikes of the spring are usually accompanied by Wisteria in Greenwood.  Growing Wisteria is probably a tradition around here because in large part because it's so easy, but it certainly doesn't hurt that it means amazing purple against the bright green of new tree growth just when we're most ready for lots of flowers,  after the Daffodils have stopped blooming.  Either way, I'm glad for it.