Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. There are a variety of warm season turf grasses that can be grown in South Carolina. The most shade tolerant but the most cold tender is St. Augustine grass, sometimes called Charleston grass as it grows in many gardens there, but chinch bugs and sensitivity to herbicides can limit its use. High maintenance sites with full sun can select from the Bermuda grass cultivars =they need full sun but have great ability to