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Centenario turf prennial ryegrass is a medium-fine, medium green, perennial ryegrass, ideally suited to sports grounds, golf tees, golf fairways and lawns receiving heavy wear, especially in the winter. Its attractive glossy mid-green colour coupled with active year round growth makes it visually appealing.

Key Features:

• Fine leaf 
• Clean cutting
• Forms dense turf
• Mid-dark green colour
• Contains endophyte

Colosseum is a medium-fine, mid-green, perennial ryegrass that is a cross between Mediterranean and American genetics. The Mediterranean genetics gives the turf active winter growth in cooler weather and rapid germination, especially in cold temperatures down to 5°C.

• Fast germination
• Winter active Mediterranean genetics
• Wear resistance and recovery
• Attractive glossy mid-green colour
• Contains endophyte

Fiesta Cinco perennial ryegrass demonstrates the highest turf quality overall at all locations of the 2016 NTEP Perennial Ryegrass trials. Fiesta Cinco has a very dark green colour with superior winter colour retention. This variety also has superior resistance to Crown Rust and Pink Snow Mould and very high resistance to Gray Leaf Spot and Red Thread.

• Superior Turf Quality
• Very Dark Green Colour
• Superior Disease Resistance
• Excellent Wear Tolerance

Soprano is an attractive, very dark green, perennial ryegrass with outstanding density and fineness making it a great choice for lawns, golf courses and sports fields. Soprano has good resistance to summer diseases allowing it to maintain high quality in humid conditions over summer.

• Exceptional very dark green colour
• Forms a dense, fine turf of high quality
• Retains good quality in humid summer conditions
• Rapid speed of establishment for a dark cultivar

Spartacus is a medium dark green turf perennial ryegrass with good density and fineness and an outstanding lively green colour retention with absence of browning. Excellent yearround colour and scores well in trials for both density and fineness.

• Speed of establishment
• Medium dark green
• Contains endophyte
• Excellent year-round colour
• Absence of browning

A+, a mixture of a Penn A bentgrass and Pure Eclipse, combines the strengths of two of the most proven bentgrass varieties creating a blend with broad genetic diversity that will produce the highest quality putting surface. A+ delivers a striking dark green colour and fine leaf texture that produces a beautiful playing surface.

• Great resistance to red leaf spot
• Good disease resistance
• Great spring green-up
• Dark green colour
• High density

Arrowtown is an elite browntop, being significantly finer and denser than Egmont, Manor and Sefton browntop. Arrowtown recovers rapidly from renovation and is an excellent choice for golf greens. Arrowtown has good year-round quality and is best suited to closer mown, high maintenance situations such as greens, tees and fairways.

• Exceptionally fine and dense
• Good year-round quality
• Recovers rapidly from renovation
• Medium green foliage colour
• Especially suited to short mown turf such as golf greens

Macdonald creeping bentgrass is a high quality turfgrass for greens and was developed for high resistance to many diseases including Dollar Spot, Anthracnose, Brown Patch and Pink Snow mould.

• Superior creeping bentgrass for putting surfaces
• Rapid establishment for interseeding
• Excellent Dollar Spot and Brown Patch resistance
• Resistant to Poa annua invasion

Penn A-1 creeping bentgrass displays a very dark green colour along with a fine leaf texture. It has outstanding heat and cold tolerances, very good winter colour and quick spring green up. Penn A-1 has good disease resistance and forms a dense sward. It is suited to golf course putting surfaces but can also be used on tees and fairways. 

• Very dark colour
• Good winter colour
• Outstanding heat and cold tolerance
• Superior wear tolerance
• Quick spring recovery and green-up

Penn A-4 creeping bentgrass displays a dark green colour along with a fine leaf texture and outstanding heat and cold tolerance. Penn A-4 has high disease resistance and forms a very dense sward due to its aggressive growth habit. It is suited to golf course putting greens as it forms a smooth grainless surface.

• Dark green colour
• Aggressive growth habit
• Exceptional heat and cold tolerance
• Fine leaf texture

Penncross is an aggressive growing bentgrass with wide adaptability, but it is relatively coarse compared to more modern cultivars for closely mowed greens. It has tight, upright growth characteristics and a fine leaf texture. It is best suited for use on golf courses (fairways, tees and greens) and winter overseeding of bermudagrass greens.

• Strong seedling vigour
• Aggressive growth and good wear tolerance
• Medium dark blueish green colour
• Good dollar spot resistance

Pure Distinction is the latest advanced bentgrass from Pure-Seed Testing. It has a rich heritage that includes legendary Penncross and the groundbreaking Penn A’s and G’s. Uniquely bright green coloured, Pure Distinction takes the attributes of these bents – dense, upright, and aggressive growth, less thatch and easy maintenance – to the next level.

• Excellent resistance to bacterial wilt, brown patch, fusariumpatch, anthracnose and leaf spot
• Great resistance to dollar spot
• Excellent heat, cold and wear tolerance
• Recovers quickly

Jackrabbit Kentucky bluegrass (poa pratensis) is an ideal choice for turf managers, sportsfields and home lawns. It also has excellent turf quality under all maintenance regimes (excels under low maintenance and in high stress environments).

Kentucky Bluegrass is a cool season lawn grass which spreads via rhizomes to form a dense sod and grows best during cool, moist weather on well-drained, fertile soils with a pH between 6 and 7.

• Cold tolerant grass seed
• Performs well in high traffic, moderate shade and sunny areas
• Rhizomatous self-repairs from heat, drought and traffic damage
• Low moisture requirement once established

Achibal slender creeping red fescue (festuca trichophylla) is a versatile grass, thriving as a short-mown lawn or a longer sward. It exhibits high disease resistance, especially in trials against red thread, ensuring a healthy, consistent visual appearance. 

• Highly resistant to red thread
• Excellent sown alone or in mixes
• Highly disease resistant
• Salt tolerance
• Excellent as a short-mown grass or longer lawn-length sward.

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 (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

Maxima 1 strong creeping red fescue (festuca rubra rubra) is a top-performing red fescue variety, known for its medium green color, excellent disease resistance, and high stress tolerance.

Requires less water and chemicals to achieve optimum turfgrass performance. This drought tolerant and disease resistant variety is good for you and for our environment. Recommended for use in park settings, golf course roughs and fairways, home lawns and landscape areas.

• Drought tolerant
• Dollar spot resistant
• Shade tolerant
• Low fertility requirement
• Underground stems

Predator hard fescue forms an excellent quality dark, dense and fine turf that is difficult to tell from chewings fescue. It is a slow growing species that is tolerant of low fertility and drought in suitable soils. Drought tolerance and persistence is best on heavy soils and moist loams but is poor on sands without irrigation.

• Slow establishing and growing but excellent quality once established
• Dark green colour
• Improved resistance to brown patch, dollar spot and leaf spot
• Best performance under low fertility
• Good persistence under drought conditions

Quatro sheep fescue (festuca ovina) is an extremely fine bladed bunchgrass that produces an exceptionally dense, deep, dark turf. It provides durable, attractive turf under a range of mowing heights, soil conditions and growing environments.

Siskin red fescue - chewings fescue (festuca commutate) is a leading cultivar for lawn and fairway, with exceptional density and good colour.

Siskin also ranks very highly in research and development for salt tolerance making this an ideal cultivar for lawns and golf fairways.

This cultivar exhibits a high level of drought tolerance, resulting in lower water usage. It is shade tolerant and performs well in full sun. A minimal amount of fertiliser is required to keep a healthy turf. Recommended for use in home lawns, parks, reclamation sites and golf courses.

• Drought tolerant
• Maintains cover, dark colour and top quality
• Dollar spot resistant
• Shade tolerant
• Low fertility requirement

Currawong II produces a low growing dense sward and can be used in any situation where a premium turf-type tall fescue is required. These situations include sports fields, parks, home lawns, sod farms and golf course roughs.

• Bred for Australasian conditions
• Year-round performance
• Attractive glossy, medium dark green colour
• Dwarf growth habit
• Contains endophyte

Lagertha was bred from advanced American material developed over many years by Rutgers University. In New Zealand a selection was undertaken for turf performance, disease resistance and adaption by turf breeder Louise Carpenter.

• Moderately fine, dense turf type tall fescue
• Dark green with excellent colour retention
• Excellent persistence without irrigation
• Contains endophyte
• Mowing height between 50 - 150 mm

Rebel Xtreme was developed to combat the stresses of summer such as diseases and drought pressures. Rebel Xtreme has a deep root system which provides a turfgrass that establishes quickly. The deep roots enhance its drought tolerance and aids in nutrient uptake at lower soil depths.

• Drought tolerant
• Dark colour and good density
• Extended root technology
• Rapid establishment
• Tolerant of low cutting height

Regenerate has improved recovery from wear, drought tolerance and exhibits improved tolerance to billbug damage & brown patch disease with outstanding performance across all regions of turf type tall fescue use.

• Heat and drought tolerant
• Low input
• Compact growth, reduces clippings and mowing frequency
• Fine textured turf quality
• Brown patch and gray leaf spot tolerance. Reduces or eliminates fungicide applications