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Grass Types

There are a wide range of different grass types available. You should try to choose one that has been designed to best suit the requirements you have for your lawn.

A brief summary follows :

Fescue Grasses. Chewings fescue and slender creeping red fescue are fine leaved and tolerant of close mowing to give the lawn a tight appearance. Strong creeping red fescue is the grass type that is often used for binding the lawn together due to its compact growth. It has good resistance to red thread.

Smooth-stalked meadow grass provides excellent wear tolerance and has a good tolerance to drought. It has a fine attractive dark leaf blade and good resistance to fungal disease.

Bentgrass. Provides a base to the lawn and good winter greenness. It is a good component to give the lawn a tighter appearance. Bentgrass varieties are often used for establishing and overseeding attractive, hardwearing greens on golf courses.

Ryegrass tends to be very tolerant to wear and is used as a foundation seed type in many lawn seed mixtures. It has properties that help it to stay green all year round.

Ornamental grass seed mixture. You can get grass seed mixes that have been blended with other plants. These have been designed especially for nature lovers and will produce an area of natural beauty in the garden. The mix is usually a conservation mixture containing 10% wild flora, comprising of oxeye daises, cowslips, buttercups and pansies, or a variety of other wild flowers.

It is ideal for attracting insects, birds and butterflies to the garden.

Usually an ornamental grass seed mixture provides a low maintenance lawn, and therefore requires no weeding or feeding and certainly less mowing.

An example mixture of this type of lawn would be :10% native wild flowers, 45% Creeping Red Fescue for binding the lawn together, 15% Hard Fescue, 25% Chewings Fescue to tolerate close mowing and 5% Bentgrass to give the lawn a tighter appearance and provide good winter greenness.