Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Last year, I got to visit Savage Bay Heritage Preserve with a group led by Naturalist Austin Jenkins. We started in the sandiest sandhill setting imaginable, all black jack, blue jack and turkey oaks, but as we descended a slope and veered off to the left, we found ourselves in a sunny open area with pond cypress dotted all around. Mixed in also Litsea aestivalis, a slender, very open tall shrub that is rarely