Shortly after I turned 26 years old, I moved from the buzz of New York City to the palm tree-lined town of Bluffton, South Carolina, just across the bridge from the resort island of Hilton Head. It was perhaps an odd choice for a young woman who was hungry to live a big, exciting life in a city. A few weeks before my move, I'd flown down to South Carolina to interview for a job as a reporter at the local newspaper, and immediately, the local flora drew me in. I was enchanted by the shades of