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Article: The perfect lawn grass?
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- September 1, 1987
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1987 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Lawn grasses are changing. Pictured above are six grasses you can buy as sod in this part of the West today. None is perfect, but together they indicate a movement toward more climate sensible lawn grasses that began in the late 1970s.
The biggest change is the "turf-type" tall fescues. Virtually unknown in 1980, they have replaced bluegrass in many areas. From the always promising, always tough zoysias, we now have a fast-growing, rotary-mowable selection, 'El Toro'. One of the most promising new grasses of the '70s, seashore paspalum (also called Adalayd and Excalibre), is now finding a niche, albeit a small one.
You can still buy dichondra, but ...