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“It's the same thing with plants,” he says. For the Upstate, good choices are conifers or hollies. Within the conifer category, Lichtenfelt says arborvitae is a great choice.

The hot, dry days of summer are coming, but you can have vibrant foundation plants and ground covers without fighting against nature.

A plant that has become more suitable for Upstate planting, due to warmer temperatures here, Lichtenfelt says, is Podocarpus. “It's used a lot in Charleston for formal hedging,” he says.