Grass (Lawn)

KIKUYU

Kikuyu is a North African (Kenyan) grass that is light to dark green with. a soft creeping mat.  It is hard-wearing, handles traffic (activity) well and is persistent in growth.  This grass can be planted via runners, sods, sprigs or dispersed via seed.  Kikuyu can be used for sports fields, at schools, creches, homes and can be used as pasture for livestock grazing.  It is drought tolerant as long as the soil is prepared correctly.  Kikuyu is also the cheapest lawn on the market.

BUFFALO

Buffalo lawn is coarse and hard, with a thick blade and broad root.  The lawn comes from Florida USA, with a botanical name of St. Augustines.  The colour ranges from yellow to dark green, with red/purple undertones.  It is slow-growing, surface grass (the runners grow on the surface of the soil) and as such does not deal well with high and continuous traffic (activity).  It is a warm-season grass grown in the summer.  It can cope with full sun to semi-shade.

LM BEREA

LM Berea gets its name from Lorenzo Marquez Berea and can be found in the east coast of Africa, the east coast of South America and in Australia.  The lawn has a soft curly blade that is light green in colour and offers good coverage.  It is a surface runner lawn and therefore does not handle high traffic (activity) well.  It is a warm-season grass that can handle a 50% tree shade, with its ability to handle acidic swirls.

CYNODON (KAAPSE FYNWEEK)

This lawn type (of which there are six common varieties) is indigenous to the Cape and, if well cultivated, is soft (can be coarse if not watered and mowed regularly) fine-bladed lawn, ranging from light yellow to grey green.  Cynodon is an extremely tough and hard-wearing lawn due to its deep root system and can tolerate high traffic (activity) and with its rapid rate of recovery, it is almost imp[ossible to eradicate.  The seed heads are produced in a cluster of 3-7 spikes (rarely 2) together at the top of the stem with each spike being 3-6cm long.