Australia's Experts
from Earth to Turf
Fine Fescues
Fine fescues have a high shoot density and are tolerant to low mowing. They maintain good colour and a fine appearance year-round. Fine fescues can used in a range of areas such as golf greens, tees and fairways. This species is also suitable for landscaping.
Garnet Strong Creeping Red Fescue
Garnet has a pleasing dark green colour, medium-fine leaf texture, and will spread by producing long underground rhizomes and large numbers of basal tillers under favourable conditions. Key features include:
• Dark green, medium-fine leaf texture
• Excellent performance at various maintenance levels
• Improved heat and drought tolerance
• Tolerates acid soils, shady conditions, and higher salinity
Governors creeping red fescue
Governors creeping red fescue is a medium-textured, midgreen fine fescue, bred from New Zealand genetic material. It has the outstanding ability to retain a green colour and grow actively over winter when other fine fescues become dormant and exhibit brown dead material. Governors is ideally used in situations such as golf course roughs, where the mowing height is above 50 mm.
- Maintains colour under cooler conditions
- Ideal for unmown areas
- Companion species in seed blends
- New Zealand bred
Lygia Chewings Fescue
Lygia chewings fescue (festuca rubra) presents a vibrant bright green colour, strong winter activity and improved levels of disease resistance; in particular, Red thread.
- Vibrant bright green colour chewings fescue
- Excellent density and leaf fineness
- Outstanding year-round growth
- Scored highly on disease resistance, particularly against Red thread (Laetisaria fuciformis)
- The overall turf quality score of Lygia was significantly higher than similar fescue varieties
