Let this grass grow under your feet
Trees, plants, flowers, hedges, or climbers, though form the most important points of focus in a garden, do not give the landscape the sprawling green look that it needs. Instead, a well-grown and well-groomed lawn, apart from providing relief to the eye, also renders a backdrop to the scenic splendour. However, many gardeners tend to spoil the precious grass thanks to their ignorance about lawn maintenance.
Lawn grass can be categorised according to form of availability, requirement of sunlight, and also according to the leaf size.
“Grass in this part of the world cannot be grown from seed. You need to either plant the cuttings or use the turf forms. Jade Velvet Grass Zoysia japonica, Korean Grass Zoysia matarella, and Mexican Grass Zoysia teunifolia varieties are available in turf form whereas the rest should be sown through dibbling (sowing like paddy),” says a nursery owner.
Turf grass is available in patches of 1’X2’ and multiples of them may be acquired depending on the required size of the lawn. However, a size of 2’X2’ should be preferred as it vouches against the existence of bad patches.
Most of the lawn grass varieties require good amounts of sunlight.
However, there are a few varieties such as Paspylum, Kentucky blue, St. Augustine and St. Augustine Variegated that may be grown in partial shade too. On the other hand, Bermuda Grass, Calcutta Doob Grass, Fescue Grass, Jade Velvet Grass, Korean Grass, and Mexican Grass do require sunlight for fulsome growth.
Varieties such as Buffalo Grass Paspylum notatum and St.Augustine have broad leaves while all others have narrower leaves.
However, the appearance of a lawn is not as much affected by the leaf size as it is by the maintenance.
SWATHI V.
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