Festuca arundinacea: properties & uses

We explain everything important about the properties and types of the fescue tube (Festuca arundinacea) and show the use of fescue fescue seeds in lawns.

Many plants are true survivors, but the fescue (Festuca arundinacea) takes the discipline of resilience to extremes. Hardly any adversity in its environment can stop its growth. In the following you will learn everything about the great strengths and small weaknesses of the special lawn grass and how you can get fescue seeds, for example, in Dry grass take advantage of.

Festuca arundinacea: origin and description

The fescue has a broad location tolerance, which is also evident in its natural distribution reflects: North Africa and Europe, up to northwest China and the Himalayas call the grass his Homeland. It belongs as well

Lolium perenne, Poa pratensis, Poa trivialis or its relative Festuca rubra to the family of sweet grasses (Poaceae). It is persistent, so it grows again every year and over a long period of time. It mainly forms clumps as well as short rhizomes in order to spread. The leaves of the fescue are very broad and coarse compared to those of other grasses. Its roots reach extremely deep into the ground. because Festuca arundinacea Can live with moisture and waterlogging just as well as with drought and heat, it colonizes wet meadows, embankments, roadsides and meadows. It grows on both slightly acidic and weakly alkaline soils and does not disdain sandy or loamy soils.

Tip: The great robustness and adaptability of Festuca arundinacea can be used when a lawn is to be laid in a dry location. Fescue is also in the Plantura dry grass mixture contain, which protects the lawn especially against heat and dehydration in summer.

Properties and uses of fescue

For a quick overview, we have everything you need to know Festuca arundinacea summarized:

The fescue in a nutshell

characteristics	Loose clumps, broad leaves, matt upper surface, glossy lower surface, strong roots
Expectations	Low demands on all surrounding environmental conditions
Durability	High
use	Dry grass, Hard-wearing lawns, sports and play lawns, Biotope areas
Germination time and development	9-16 days, fast growing, but less competitive
Minimum cutting height	30 - 40 mm
particularities	Particularly insensitive to drought and heat, very broad location tolerance, hardly susceptible to lawn diseases

Festuca arundinacea forms loose clumps with its broad, matt leaves. Its roots are strong, often branched and reach deep into the ground. It makes hardly any demands on its environment and can grow successfully on different soils and in different climates. Fescue is hard-wearing in the lawn and tolerates being trodden on and regular cutting quite well. It germinates and grows quickly, but is not very competitive with other grasses. The vast majority of lawn diseases can hardly harm the fescue, only some varieties are susceptible to Fusarium rot.
Fescue is spurned by grazing animals, which is why it is unsuitable as forage grass. It shows its strengths especially as lawn grass in special mixtures for Dry grass.

Tip: The fescue has a number of advantages, but also two disadvantages: It has rather coarse, wide leaves that give a lawn a somewhat uneven, rough look. In addition, it does not hold up well against other lawn grasses. In our Plantura dry grass We use the variety in premium quality Festuca arundinacea ‘Debussy 1’, a beautiful, dark green variety of the fescue that forms a dense scar. We compensate for the low level of competitiveness with a high seed density: 70% of our mix consists of fescue seeds. We also pay attention to a good combination with proven suitable mixing partners such as Poa pratensis.

Different varieties of Festuca arundinacea

The fescue fescue was improved by human hands despite its already good natural properties. The goal of breeding the fescue was always to maintain the high tolerance towards the environment at the same time increasing the competitiveness against other lawn grasses and weeds as well as a refinement the optics.

A good example of successful breeding is the ‘Debussy 1’ variety, which is why we have grass seeds of this fescue in ours Plantura dry grass use.

Festuca arundinacea‘Barcesar‘:
Rather fast growing; only faint green in winter; fine leaf (compared to other species of the species); good grain density; good competitiveness against weeds; durable; high resistance to many lawn diseases; for Play and sports turf, Hard-wearing lawns and House lawn in dry areas equally well suited.

Festuca arundinacea‘SC1‘:
Medium to Fast Growth; still green enough in winter; fine leaf (compared to other species of the species); nice dense scar; sufficient competitiveness against weeds; quite high durability; high resistance to many lawn diseases; good suitability for sports turf, Play and sports turf as House lawn in dry areas and hard-wearing lawns.

Festuca arundinacea ′ Debussy 1 ′:
Medium fast growth; still green in winter; coarse leaf; nice dense stigma and good competition against weeds; good hard-wearing; Resistance to the most important lawn diseases, suitable for use lawns, Sports and play lawns and hard-wearing lawns. This variety is used in ours because of its good properties Plantura Premium dry grass.

Festuca arundinacea‘Divyna‘:
Fast growing; only faint green in winter; extremely coarse leaf; Sufficiently good grain density and just as competitive against weeds; not very hard-wearing; resistant to all major lawn diseases; for House lawn in dry areas, Hard-wearing turf, sports turf and Play and sports turf equally suitable.

Festuca arundinacea‘Eyecandy‘:
Rapid growth; only faint green in winter; extremely coarse leaf; good grain density and competitiveness against weeds; less durable; sufficient resistance to all lawn diseases; moderately suitable for sports turf, House lawn in dry areas as Play and sports turf.