Festuca rubra rubra
Garnet
Garnet Creeping Red Fescue has shown excellent performance at every maintenance level, from no-mow to fairway cutting heights of 1/2”. Red fescues have been documented to often contain high levels of a natural herbicide, meta-tyrosine. Garnet has shown low levels of weed invasion in all trials reporting, from crabgrass to poa annua. Garnet is a tough, persistent, endophyte enhanced variety that is well adapted to deep shade, hot summers lower fertility soils, higher salt conditions, and lower maintenance situations. Garnet has a pleasing dark green color, medium fine leaf texture, and will spread by producing long underground rhizomes and large numbers of basal tillers under favorable conditions. Garnet is very persistent and has improved heat and drought tolerance. Garnet is well adapted to low fertility situations and tolerates acid soils and shady conditions very well. It will germinate and grow under higher salt conditions, even with water salt levels higher than 12,000 ppm total salts. Garnet can be blended with other improved varieties of fine fescue, and also mixes wel with improved varieties of Kentucky bluegrass
Key features
- Dark green, medium-fine leaf texture
- Excellent performance at various maintenance levels
- Endophyte-enhanced
- Improved heat and drought tolerance
- Tolerates acid soils, shady conditions, and higher salinity