Yates Tall Fescue Lawn Seed
A rich dark green cool season turf grass with a medium, soft blade. It is tolerant to drought, heavy rainfall and suitable for a wide range of climates.
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Tall fescue is a cool season turf grass that is tolerant of a wide range of weather conditions. It's very resilient, making it a great choice for our changeable New Zealand climate.
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) is quite shade tolerant, but also thrives in full sun. It's happy in a wide range of soil conditions and can handle pH ranges from 5 - 7.5 (although it grows best between 5.5 - 6.5). Tall fescue has the best drought tolerance of all cool season lawn types, allowing it to grow better through the summer than the others. It's extremely frost tolerant and copes with long and intense rain periods as well. Tall fescue's natural hardiness makes it a very versatile all-rounder.
It has the widest leaf blade of the cool season varieties, at 5-8mm.
Its method of spread is both by seed and rhizomes. The width of spread via rhizomes differs between cultivars, but it's never as aggressive or fast-growing as other spreading (stoloniferous) grasses. For that reason, if you have bare patches it's best to reseed rather than wait for tall fescue to fill in by itself.
It prefers mowing above 15mm.
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