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Warm Season Cultivars
PGG Wrightson Turf cultivars undergo rigorous testing procedures. The Warm Season selections are carefully designed to give you the best results. With breeding, evaluation and screening sites located throughout Australasia, we are able to source the most suitable genetic material to include in our cultivar range.
Argentine Bahia grass
Perennial spring, summer, autumn growing grass suited to tropical climates. Argentine has a high tolerance to acid soils. Argentine has a moderate frost tolerance and is suited to well-drained light textured soils.
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Will grow and survive on low-fertility soils
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Very competitive, good for weed control
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Good shade tolerance
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Very persistent
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Best suited to tropical climates
Application Rate
Sowing rate 80 - 100 kg per hectare.
Pack Size: 25Kg
Pensacola Bahia grass
Perennial spring, summer and autumn growing grass suited to tropical climates. Pensacola has a high tolerance to acid soils. Poor frost tolerance and is suited to well-drained light textured soils.
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Very drought tolerant
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Very competitive, good for weed control
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Good shade tolerance
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Very persistent
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Tolerant of heavy grazing pressure
Application Rate
Sowing rate 80 - 100 kg per hectare.
Pack Size: 25Kg
Bahia Grass
Bermuda Grass
TransContinental Bermuda grass
TransContinental seeded bermudagrass can be used in a wide variety of situations from sportsfields, parks, schools, home, commercial turf, roadsides and erosion control.
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Excellent drought tolerance
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Very good traffic tolerance and recovery
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Improved winter survival over most seeded bermudagrass varieties
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Quick spring green-up
Application Rate
Sowing rates for TransContinental are 10 - 15 g/m2 (100 - 150 kg/ha) for new sowings
Pack Size: 25Kg
Carpet Grass
Narrow Leaf Carpet Grass
Narrow-leaf carpet grass is a warm-season perennial, stoloniferous, short-spreading grass closely related to broadleaf carpet grass.
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Establishes easily from seed
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Low growing warm season turf grass forming dense sod and spreading by stolons
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Narrow soft smooth blunt leaves
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Useful as a low-maintenance utility lawn and for revegetation or erosion control
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Well suited to the tropics and subtropics
Application Rate
Sow new seed at 8 – 12 g/m2 (80 - 120 kg/ha).
Pack Size: 25Kg
Centipede Grass
TifBlair™ Centipede grass
TifBlair™ centipede grass is a warm-season perennial variety that requires little maintenance. It is known as the “lazy man’s grass” because of its low growth habit and reduced mowing requirement.
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Improved certified type
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Very low maintenance cultivar
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Very low fertility requirement
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Drought tolerant
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Exceptional seedling vigour
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Quick ground cover with strong early root development
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Excellent winter hardiness
Application Rate
TifBlair™ should be sown at 5 - 10 g/m2 (50 - 100 kg/ha)
Pack Size: 25Kg
Kikuyu Grass
Regal StayGreen® Kikuyu
Regal StayGreen® is a turf-type Kikuyu that has a darker green colour and finer leaf texture than vegetative Kikuyu. Regal StayGreen® is more cold tolerant than other warm-season grasses and retains its green colour better. It also withstands heat and drought well and is not susceptible to many of the common turf pests or diseases.
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Dark green colour
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Finer leaf texture
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Heat and drought tolerant
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More suited to turf than forage types
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Good wear tolerance
Whittet Kikuyu
Whittet Kikuyu is a spring/summer/autumn growing grass suitable for lawns, fairways and sporting fields. Whittet shows rapid summer growth, good drought tolerance, suppression of undesirable weeds and is very responsive to nitrogen fertiliser.
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Rapid summer growth
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Drought tolerance
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Suppression of undesirable weeds
Application Rate
Sowing rate and maintenance 40 - 60 kg/ha. Whittet can be sown from late spring/early summer until February.
Pack Size: 25Kg
Queensland Blue Couch
Queensland Blue couch
Queensland Blue Couch is used for revegetation in suitable climates. It has also been a long time and often used grass for Australian home lawns.
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Fine to medium texture
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Excellent salt tolerance
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Herbicide sensitive
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Medium shade tolerance
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Frost sensitive, goes dormant through winter months
Application Rate
Sowing rate and maintenance Sow at 0.5 kg/100 m2. Maintain mowing height between 12 - 20 mm
Pack Size: 25Kg
