super fast reply What Grass Is That? Warm Season or Cool Season Grasses Identified
What Grass is that? - is a quiz, asked by many home owners and new lawn mowing contractors. There are many dissimilar grass types which fall into one of 2 categories of grasses: Warm or Cool Season Grasses.
What Grass Is That? Warm Season or Cool Season Grasses Identified
In Australia, especially in the temperate zone, we touch the delights offered by the four seasons of Summer, Autumn (or Fall as it is referred to in North America), Winter and Spring. The noted turf grass types grown and cared for in residential and corporate gardens (in our temperate zone) are mostly Warm Season Grasses. Along with these, some citizen prefer the benefits offered with Cool Season grasses.
Cool Season grasses are those mostly propagated for use in northern hemisphere countries like the United Kingdom, North America, Canada and so on. These grasses are dissimilar from warm season grasses in that they mostly grow from seed Only and ordinarily grow with a single stem Only. These grass types including Rye and Fescue lawns wish plentifulness of moisture to keep them seeing their best.
However, there is a new-ish Tall Fescue grass on the store called Rhizomatous Tall Fescue (Rtf). Rtf has Rhizomes (under ground runners) allowing it to mend itself by developing its under ground runners.
Warm Season grasses are beloved all colse to the world in more temperate climates such as Africa, Australia and South America. These grasses can be propagated Both by seed (with exiguous success for some grasses) and by vegetative means including sods, turf rolls or small sprigs of runners.
All Warm Season lawns wish heavy but infrequent watering - so ordinarily the rainfall of the temperate areas provide the spoton number of moisture for the long term survival of these grass types. All of these lawn types are built with above ground runners (technically referred to as Stolons) and a large group of these grasses have a system of Both above ground runners (Stolons) and below ground runners (technically referred to as Rhizomes).
The grasses with Stolons Only contain Buffalo grass, or St Augustine grass (as it is referred to in North America); and Queensland Blue Couch. The grasses with both Stolons and Rhizomes contain Kikuyu, Couch (Bermuda) grass, Zoysia, coast Paspalum and so on.
The warm season grasses with both stolons and rhizomes such as the couch (Bermuda grass) and Kikuyu grasses are used in sports field and other heavy wear situations. The rhizomes of these grasses allow for quick recovery after heavy winter use (especially in the Australian winter sport seasons).
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