New Lawn

Everybody wants the perfect lawn which looks as good as a bowling green without all the hard work.

Riley's Super Sports couch

There is a new lawn available, Riley's Super Sports, which is a couch lawn. It stays green in winters, tolerates traffic and requires little mowing. The lawn is fine textured and requires little care to keep it looking good. It was developed by Rod Riley and is a dwarf sport of his Greenlees Couch.

Advantages:

mostly horizontal growth and so even in summer it may only need mowing once every few weeks. recovers quickly from damage very low seed head production and infrequent flowering which makes it good for allergy sufferers drought tolerant tolerant of heavy wear and traffic the most shade tolerant of all the couch lawns quite cold tolerant, staying reasonably green in winter even after frost if kept short and well fed coming into winter

Care and maintenance:

well drained site should be laid on 100-150mm (4-6") of sandy loam which is especially important in a shaded position feed small amounts of fertilizer regularly always mow to the same mower height setting regardless of how much leaf is removed

Price and availability

Riley's Super Sports couch is available from the following suppliers; Sydney Windsor Turf Supplies
Phone: (02) 4577 2550
Cost: $4 per square metre plus delivery, available now Adelaide Golden Grove Garden Centre
Phone: (08) 8251 1111
Cost: $4.70 per square metre including delivery and will be available from November. Brisbane Twin View Turf
Phone: (07) 5496 7393
Cost: $3.90 plus delivery and will be available mid December.

Note: This is a new variety which hasn't had years of testing and was still under trial in Perth, Melbourne, Canberra and Cairns.

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