High Traffic Grass: Your Most Durable Grass Options | TruGreen | TruGreen (2024)

FAQs

What grass is best for high-traffic areas? ›

JaMur Zoysia grass and TifTuf Bermuda grass are ideal for a high-traffic property. They grow lush and soft under bare feet and quickly recover from damage. Zeon Zoysia grass is another great option, especially if parts of your lawn are shaded.

Perennial Ryegrass

Perennial ryegrass is the most durable variety of grass, so it is the most popular grass for golf courses in northern climates. This is a kind of grass with tough blades and a strong root system. As well, it withstands heavy foot traffic, is fast-growing, and is drought-resistant.

SUPERSTAR: Back Lawn provides the best hard wearing lawn, which is perfect for gardens that get used a lot! It features a seed mix of 80% perennial ryegrass that creates a hard wearing, fast-growing lawn that can handle any wear and tear, while the strong creeping red fescue helps it recover quickly.

Fine fescue is the most popular low-maintenance cool-season grass. Hard fescue and fine fescue mixes require very little maintenance. You'll only have to mow your lawn once or twice a year. Fescues are hardy and they'll naturally crowd out weeds, so you don't have to worry about fertilizer, herbicide, or pesticide.

Perennial Ryegrass: Perennial ryegrass germinates quickly and establishes a dense turf that can handle heavy foot traffic. It's often used in sports fields or mixed with other grass types to improve wear resistance. Discover how to maintain a perennial ryegrass lawn.

Grass/Fire, Grass/Water, and Grass/Steel have the least amount of weaknesses. The only pokemon with those types are Lotad/Lombre/Ludicolo (Water/Grass) and Ferroseed/Ferrothorn (Grass/Steel).

Tall fescues are high yielding and the most persistent of all grass forages, tall fescues are drought tolerant, heat resistant, and insect tolerant. Tall fescue is not as palatable as other forages and it is necessary to plant varieties that will not cause fescue toxicosis.

This popular grass variety adapts well to diverse environments, including damp or shady areas and colder climates. And unlike warm season varieties, fescue maintains its rich green color year round.

Ideal hard-wearing grasses are Kikuyu, Couch, Buffalo and Zoysia.

St. Augustine is the most shade-tolerant grass, followed by finer-bladed zoysia varieties like Innovation and Geo, while bermuda is less shade-tolerant, with Celebration being the best option among bermuda types.

What is the hardiest lawn? ›

Perennial ryegrass is used for the very toughest applications, premiership football pitches, showgrounds, racetracks etc. Over recent years, new varieties of amenity perennial ryegrass have been cultivated to produce finer leaves in order to produce attractive, lush green lawns.

No-mow grass, also known as “lazy lawn,” “Native Mow,” or “miracle grass,” is a type of grass that has been specifically bred to require little to no care. This type of grass is usually made up of a mix of fine fescue, bluegrass, and rye grasses.

A cool-season grass known for its lush, emerald-green appearance and fine texture, Kentucky bluegrass is what most people picture when they imagine the perfect turfgrass.

Bermudagrass and Zoysia grass are both aggressive growers that spread by stolons and rhizomes (above- and below-ground stems). This double growing action allows these grasses to recover quickly and repair themselves when wear or other damage occurs.

Fescues are known for not only their drought tolerance, but also their shade tolerance, which makes Fescue a desirable species of grass because of its suitability to different conditions. Fescue grasses possess the ability to stay green all year long as well, which only adds to their desirabilty as a turfgrass species.

U Blade-80 - Great for heavy traffic

This has an engineered U Blade, which is designed to withstand higher traffic and remain standing upright under significant pressure. In terms of safety, we at Watersavers Turf work hard to supply you with the best possible synthetic grass. Total Weight 107 oz.

Bermudagrass has the fastest growth rate of any of the common warm-season grasses. It spreads by both above-ground stems known as stolons and below-ground stems called rhizomes.