Hendersonville, North Carolina to Jekyll Island, Georgia:  More redbuds appeared in bloom as we drove south, and many weeping cherries.  The high trees showed bright red, orange and golden flowers almost immediately  after Hendersonville, and Jessamine appeared abruptly at Columbia. The coastal plain showed far less inhibition from the cool spring than did the mountain and piedmont areas, and leafing became common in the undergrowth and canopy even before Columbia. Full-blooming wisteria appeared a little before the I-95 intersection. The large white thistles, the red clover, the tall red blooming dock-like plant (very common), white clover, tall prickly sow thistles, what appeared to be bright yellow tall ragwort, and an abundance of black medic type of ground cover appeared in the roadsides. The causeway to Jekyll was lined with pink cosmos, and on the island itself, azaleas appeared to be late in their cycle.