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Wintergreen Couch

Cynodon dactylon
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Wintergreen (Cynodon dactylon) is an attractive emerald green hybrid couch lawn with a soft formal appearance and a fine leaf texture. It is a deep-rooted lawn with a smooth, soft, but hard wearing surface. This hybrid-couch is a hardy all-round turf for a durable home lawn or hard wearing sports surface.
- Wintergreen can be mowed with a rotary mower, but has better results with a reel mower.
- Requires de-thatching every second or third year.
- Wintergreen is only suited for full sun areas.
- Wintergreen has a fine leaf structure for that bowling green look.
- Maintains a good winter colour with adequate maintenance. Has a tendency to go dormant during winter.
- When grown in full sun, Wintergreen has a medium wear tolerance.


Kikuyu

Pennisetum clandestinum
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Kikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum) is a popular variety of lawn for both domestic and commercial use, due to its affordable price and excellent durability. Kikuyu holds it’s colour well in most conditions, and makes an especially good lawn on large areas due to its high wearability, ability to recuperate, and high thatching tendency. Kikuyu can be found in most parks, ovals and reserves.
- Kikuyu can tolerate light shady areas.
- Medium leaf texture.
- Retains a good colour all year round.
- Can withstand wear and tear very well.
- Very good recovery rate.
- Kikuyu is Australia’s most popular commercial grass for large areas.
- Kikuyu requires frequent mowing during summer.
- Easy to control with Roundup (Glyphosate).


Kenda Kikuyu
Pennisetum clandestinum ‘KIK203’
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Kenda (Pennisetum clandestinum ‘KIK203’) is a fast establishing form of kikuyu turf. Kenda has excellent wear tolerance and is the fastest recovery turf available, making it the perfect choice for active kids and energetic dogs. It is winter active, meaning in most parts of Western Australia you can have a dark green lawn all year round. Kenda was bred to be predominantly male sterile, meaning it is less likely to produce seed, therefore better for allergy sufferers. Compared to other kikuyu, Kenda has four times as many rhizomes, and more vigorous stolons making it a great choice for commercial use.
True Blue Turf is the only supplier of Kenda Kikuyu in the south west of Australia.
- Kenda will grow well on most soil types, even performing better on poor soils than other kikuyu.
- Has good disease tolerance.
- Grows dense and vigorously enough to make it hard for weeds to invade.
- Bred to be male sterile, meaning it is less likely to produce seed, helping to alleviate allergies.
- Kenda has the quickest recovery rate, and is the hardest wearing turf available in Australia.
- It is great for sunny home lawns that require the ultimate in wear recovery.
- Recommended for pathways and heavy foot traffic areas.
- Easy to control with Roundup (Glyphosate).


Sapphire Soft Leaf Buffalo

Stenotaphrum Secundatum B12
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Sapphire (Stenotaphrum Secundatum B12) is equal in performance to any other new breed of soft leaf buffalo, with the added benefit of finer texture. It grows quickly across the ground, providing fast recovery from wear, has excellent winter colour, and a deep root system. Sapphire is truly amazing; its rich green colour will make your lawn ‘the envy of the street.’ Sapphire is bred in Australia for Australian conditions and is now grown worldwide.
- Sapphire is excellent at out competing weeds.
- Less spongy than other buffalo varieties.
- Definitely Australia’s best looking buffalo.
- Just touch it, feel it and you will be impressed with Sapphire.
- Able to cope well with medium traffic situations; it is fast recovering.
- Sapphire is the most shade tolerant buffalo on the market in the whole of Australia.
- When Sapphire is mature, the leaves tend to fold shut, giving a superb lush appearance.
- Sapphire is the answer for those landscapes requiring something that would perform well in both shady and sunny areas.
- Has a rich green colour all year round.
- It takes quite a few severe frosts to send well fertilised Sapphire off colour.




