KIKUYU? COUCH? RYEGRASS? Find the right grass type!
Let’s learn about some different lawn varieties, when they grow best and what they look like!
COOL SEASON VARIETIES
Note: Cool Season varieties like more moderate weather. They thrive during the Spring and Autumn periods. They require additional watering in summer or very dry months to stay green. Ideal for Autumn and Spring sowing but can be sown year round with additional irrigation in summer.
Turf Perennial Ryegrass (cool season variety)
- Fine and soft underfoot, vertical growth, with care will persist for many seasons
- Dark green colour
- Very quick to establish. Ideal for Autumn and Spring sowing
- Often included in blends and oversown into sports grounds for Autumn
See our Home Run LS
Annual Ryegrass (cool season variety)
- Fine and soft underfoot, vertical growth, often used in blends with couch as annual ryegrass will eventually die out making way for the couch to dominate.
- Quickest to establish
- Ideal for Autumn and Spring sowing
Kentucky Blue Grass (cool season variety)
- Fine and soft underfoot, vertical growth, with care will persist for many seasons
- Deep, dark Blue/Green colour
- Frost tolerant
- Ideal for Autumn and Spring sowing
See our Premium Lawn Blend
Tall Fescue (cool season variety)
- Wider leaf width, extra drought tolerance
- Dark Green colour
- Ideal for Atumn and Spring sowing
See our Defiant XRE Tall Fescue
Creeping Red Fescue (cool season variety)
- Very shade tolerant, fine and soft underfoot, vertical growth
- Ideal for Autumn and Spring sowing
See our Sun and Shade Blend
Bentgrass (cool season variety)
- Very fine, used for bowling greens and sports areas
- Dense growth. High maintenance
See our Dominant Xtreme
WARM SEASON VARIETIES
Note: Warm Season varieties thrive in hot weather. They are more drought and wear tolerant. They grow across a surface and self repair so require maintenance around edges and garden beds. They go into dormancy in states with cold winters. Ideal sowing times below:
- October to February in Victoria and South Australia, Southern WA
- September to March in Southern NSW
- September to April in ACT / Northern NSW / Northern WA / QLD
- FNQ – ideally sow during wet season or when temps are consistently high
- Northern Territory – sow year round with additional irrigation in dry season
- Not recommended for Tasmania
Kikuyu (warm season variety)
- Spreads by stolons and rhizomes, forming a dense, spongy turf
- Medium leaf. Very drought and wear-tolerant
- Ideal for erosion control on slopes
- Requires less watering
See our Turbocote Kikuyu Seed
Couch (warm season variety)
- fine leaf, low-growing creeping grass that spreads rapidly via rhizomes
- Often used on sports grounds
- Requires less watering
- Available in common or improved varieties
See our La Prima Couch
See our Turbocote Couch
Queensland Blue Couch (warm season variety)
- Dark green/bluish low growing leaf
- Not as hard wearing as other couch
- Suitable for lawns located above South-East Queensland
See our Queensland Blue Couch
