Category Lawn

What Is Chewings Fescue?

Chewings Fescue

Chewings fescue (Festuca rubra subsp. commutata) is one of the fine fescues, a group of closely related grass species valued for their narrow leaf blades, low maintenance requirements, and tolerance of shade, drought, and poor soils. It is a non-creeping…

What Is Smooth-Stalked Meadow Grass?

What Is Smooth-Stalked Meadow Grass?

Smooth-stalked meadow grass (Poa pratensis) is one of the most widely distributed native grasses in the British Isles. It grows naturally across meadows, road verges, parks, and agricultural grasslands from the south coast to the Scottish Highlands, and it appears…

What Is Browntop Bent?

A selective focus shot of growing Agrostis capillaris plant

Browntop bent (Agrostis capillaris) is the grass behind every fine ornamental lawn in the UK. It is the species on bowling greens, golf putting surfaces, and the formal striped lawns that define British garden aesthetics at their most demanding. Where perennial…

What Is Creeping Red Fescue?

What Is Creeping Red Fescue

Creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra rubra) is the grass that performs where perennial ryegrass cannot. In shaded gardens, on sandy soils, on dry chalk slopes, and in lawns that receive little supplementary water or feeding, it is the species that…

Perennial Ryegrass: The Complete Care Guide

Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) is the single most prevalent grass species in British lawns. Found in an estimated 70 to 80 per cent of domestic seed mixes sold in the UK, it accounts for the bulk of what grows underfoot…