Thursday 19 February 2015

Enjoy Lush Green Lawns with Buffalo Turf – Create a Heavenly Lawn

Lawns are the little pieces of green giving out instant relaxation. The most popular lawn grass in Australia is Buffalo Turf. The origin of this perennial grass is from Montano to Mexico region. Buffalo herds that roamed the Great Plains of North America eat this grass and hence it got its name. By nature, it has great tolerance to withstand water scarcity and extreme weather conditions. In addition, it has excellent seed producing tendency.

This buffalo turf has many varieties like Sapphire Buffalo and Kings Pride Buffalo. Lawns created with buffalo turf are excellent and they are the favourites in the residential market.

General features of Buffalo turf:

*    Drought tolerance
*    Frost Tolerance
*    Shade Tolerance
*    Hardwearing and high durability
*    Low mowing
*    Low maintenance  and more

Before choosing buffalo grass, it is important to know the various types of this grass because there are vast differences between them. This knowledge will be helpful to select the most suitable type easily.
Some popular types of buffalo turf are:

*    Kings Pride
*    Sapphire
*    Shade master
*    Palmetto
*    ST 85
*    ST 26
*    Sir Walter
*    Matilda
*    Common Buffalo

The seeds of buffalo grass are very slow to germinate and hence this turf can be accessed as ready to use product. In case people need lawns immediately, then instant lawns can be prepared with buffalo turf.  However, this is costlier than breaking this turf into pieces and planting them on the lawn to spread out, which will take about seven to ten months time.

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