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Grass-Seed Species and Basic Grass-Seed Species combined with perennial ryegrass, smooth mea-
dowgrass is suitable for intensively high-loaded lawns.
their Properties when and their Properties
Red fescues – Festuca rubra
Used in the Garden Boom Fescues themselves are further divided into, to
Perennial rye-grass – Lolium perenne
Product-Range
One of the strengths of perennial rye-grass is its bunch-type fescues, short-outgrowing and tall-out-
excellent resistance to load, fast seed germination growing fescues. Combining these three species
and its growing-up speed after seeding. Its weak- gives a high-quality lawn. The strengths of fescue
GARDEN BOOM grass-seed mixtures are selected ness is its lower resistance to dryness, and its higher grasses are their leaf-fineness, density and its to-
from the top grass-seed species, corresponding lerance to shadowing. Its weaknesses include its
to the valuation systems RSM (applied in Germany) maintenance requirements. When complying with regeneration speed and its resistance to load. For
the recommended care, ryegrass with other grass
and STRI (applied in England).
species is able to make a really high-quality lawn.
that reason, it’s mainly used in decoration lawns.
To be selected for grass-seed mixtures under the
Garden Boom trademark, the species have to Smooth stalked meadow-grass – Poa pratensis
comply with the highest quality requirements. Size Overview of the
Combining the species and varieties of perennial The strengths of smooth stalked meadow-grass are
rye-grass, smooth meadow-grass and red-fescue its resistance to overstepping, tolerance to coldness Grass-Seed Species
and its excellent appearance after mowing. Its weak-
grasses giving a coherent range of top grass-seed ness is mainly its slower growing-up speed, taking 3
mixtures.
or 4 weeks according to ambient conditions. Being
Perennial rye-grass
(Lolium perenne)
Properties of the grass Perennial Red fescue grasses Smooth
-seed varieties
rye-grass
Tall-outgrowing Bunch-type Short-outgrowing
meadow-grass

Tolerance to heavy use
10
434
9
Resistance to diseases
6
754
7
Tolerance to dryness
4
678
5
Growing-up speed
10
876
2
Smooth stalked
Nutrients needed
9
644
8
meadow-grass
Tolerance to high temperatures
2
566
5
(Poa pratensis)
Leaf ineness
4
488
3
Cleanness after mowing
4
788
5
Tolerance to the salting
4
578
4
Tolerance to the shadowing
5
566
5
Density
5
499
5
Tolerance to wetness
2
444
4
Red fescue
Producing felt
1
456
7
(Festuca rubra)
Tolerance to coldness
2
333
6

Properties of the grass-seed species: 1 - the worst; 10 - the best

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