Tuesday 10 March 2015

Understanding Sydney Turf and the Benefits of Soft leaf Buffalo

Landscaping your garden with Sydney Turf is one of the best ways to make your garden become the envy of the town. Also used for playgrounds and various sporting activities, Sydney Turfprovides excellent benefits through its huge variety of turf types. The Soft leaf Buffalo is one of the most popular among its varieties. Let us take a closer look at the various reasons which leads to its popularity.

Soft leaf Buffalo – Its Genesis and Benefits

The Buffalo turf known for its high performance and fine texture originates in Africa and the Caribbean. The first generation of this fine quality turf was offloaded on the Australian soil from a ship called SS Buffalo in the 1840’s. Hence the turf came to be known as Buffalo Turf. The Soft leaf Buffalo variety is far removed from the scratchy and rough texture of the original Buffalo turf quality. It is the ability of soft leaf Buffalo turf to be an easy grass to grow that makes it extremely popular with both commercial and residential establishments. The three most popular varieties of the soft leaf Buffalo turf are:

•    Palmetto
•    Sapphire
•    Sir Walter

Though each soft leaf buffalo variety of Sydney Turfshares the common goodness of being hard wearing and being shade tolerant, they all have their independent benefits. Let us take a look at them separately.

Sapphire Soft Leaf Buffalo – Characteristics and Benefits

The chief distinguishing characteristic of the Sapphire Soft leaf Buffalo variety is its rich green colour. As it rolls out its smooth texture on your lawns, Saphhire spreads a riot of freshness and vitality. Moreover, this variety of Sydney Turf is also known to be one of the finest textured and the hardest in wearing than any of its brethren is known to possess. Much of its hard wearing quality is displayed in its ability to recover quickly from any kind of damage.

Sapphire is also known to display and hold its winter colour longer than most others of its ilk. If fertilised properly and diligently in April, it is known to provide solid colours throughout the winter. Some of the benefits provided by Sapphire include the following:

•    Sapphire is tightly matted and provides high performance. This leaves little scope for weeds to grow. Even if they do sprout up, Sapphire can be sprayed with chemicals like Bromoxynil and MCPA. Its resistance to these chemicals makes it a safe resolution to outwit the weeds. 
•    It is extremely tolerant to hot weather conditions and thrives quite well in hot and humid regions as well as in desert areas.
•    It provides moderate to good shade tolerance.
•    Owing to its fast growing stolons, it provides excellent recovery forinjury if any during mowing.
Palmetto Soft leaf Buffalo – Characteristics and Benefits

The Palmetto variety shares most of the benefits with Sapphire. It provides a rich green colour even in winter and requires extremely low maintenance as it needs less mowing and edging. It is extremely compatible with adverse weather conditions like drought, extreme cold or even in extreme humidity.This is displayed quite well in its ability to retain its winter colour even in frost.
Sir Walter Soft leaf Buffalo

Sir Walter is another excellent soft leaf buffalo variety you can consider installing. It provides good disease tolerance and is extremely high performing. There is however two factors that may be a deterrent for many in using Sir Walter. This variety of buffalo turf requires higher maintenance and is therefore priced higher than the rest.

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