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Warm Season Cultivars
PGG Wrightson Turf cultivars undergo rigorous testing procedures. With breeding, evaluation and screening sites located throughout Australasia, we are able to source the most suitable genetic material to include in our cultivar range.
Bahia Grass
Perennial spring, summer, autumn growing grass suited to tropical climates. Bahia grass has a high tolerance to acid soils, a moderate frost tolerance and is suited to well-drained light textured soils.
Argentine Bahia Grass
Perennial spring, summer, autumn growing grass suited to tropical climates. Argentine has a high tolerance to acid soils. Argentine has a moderate frost tolerance and is suited to well-drained light textured soils.
- Will grow and survive on low-fertility soils
- Very competitive, good for weed control
- Good shade tolerance
- Very persistent
- Best suited to tropical climates
Pensacola bahia grass
Perennial spring, summer and autumn growing grass suited to tropical climates. Pensacola has a high tolerance to acid soils. Poor frost tolerance and is suited to well drained light textured soils.
- Very drought tolerant
- Very competitive, good for weed control
- Good shade tolerance
- Very persistent
- Tolerant of heavy grazing pressure
Bermudagrass
Bermudagrass cultivars are highly drought tolerant and recover quickly from wear. They can be used in a variety of situations including sports fields, parks, golf courses and amenity turf.
TransContinental bermudagrass
TransContinental seeded bermudagrass can be used in a wide variety of situations from sportsfields, parks, schools, home, commercial turf, roadsides and erosion control.
- Excellent drought tolerance
- Very good traffic tolerance and recovery
- Improved winter survival over most seeded bermudagrass varieties
- Quick spring green-up
Carpet Grass
Narrow leaf carpet grass is a warm season perennial, stoloniferous, short spreading grass closely realted to broadleaf carpet grass. It is drought tolerant and better suited to drier shallower soils.
Narrow Leaf Carpet Grass
Narrow leaf carpet grass is a warm season perennial, stoloniferous, short spreading grass closely related to broadleaf carpet grass.
- Establishes easily from seed
- Low growing warm season turf grass forming dense sod and spreading by stolons
- Narrow soft smooth blunt leaves
- Useful as a low maintenance utility lawn and for revegetation or erosion control
- Well suited to the tropics and subtropics
Centipede Grass
Centipede grass is a warm season perennial variety that requires little maintenance. It is known as the “lazy man’s grass” because of it’s low growth habit and reduced mowing requirement. It grows well on a range of soils and will flourish in all pH situations.
TifBlair™ centipede grass
TifBlair™ centipede grass is a warm season perennial variety that requires little maintenance. It is known as the “lazy man’s grass” because of it’s low growth habit and reduced mowing requirement.
- Improved certified type
- Very low maintenance cultivar
- Very low fertility requirement
- Drought tolerant
- Exceptional seedling vigour
- Quick ground cover with strong early root development
- Excellent winter hardiness
Kikuyu
Kikuyu is a warm season grass that has rapid summer growth and good wear tolerance. Its fine and dense properties make it suitable for lawns, golf fairways and sports fields.
Regal StayGreen® Kikuyu
Regal StayGreen® is a turf type kikuyu that has a darker green colour and finer leaf texture than vegetative kikuyu. Regal StayGreen® is more cold tolerant than other warm season grasses and retains its green colour better. It also withstands heat and drought well and is not susceptible to many of the common turf pests or diseases.
- Dark green colour
- Finer leaf texture
- Heat and drought tolerant
- More suited to turf than forage types
- Good wear tolerance
Whittet kikuyu
Whittet kikuyu is a spring/summer/autumn growing grass suitable for lawns, fairways and sporting fields. Whittet shows rapid summer growth, good drought tolerance, supression of undersirable weeds and is very responsive to nitrogen fertiliser.
- Rapid summer growth
- Drought tolerance
- Suppression of undesirable weeds
Queensland Blue Couch
Queensland Blue Couch has been for a long time an often used grass for Australian home lawns. It has a lovely soft texture, mows beautifully with a cylinder mower or rotary mower, is less aggressive than real couches, and doesn’t thatch up as much as couch grass.
Queensland Blue Couch
Queensland Blue Couch is used for revegetation in suitable climates. It has also been a long time and often used grass for Australian home lawns.
- Fine to medium texture
- Excellent salt tolerance
- Herbicide sensitive
- Medium shade tolerance
- Frost sensitive, goes dormant through winter months
