With a slightly frosted, blue-green colour, Wintergreen Couch is a crisp and very fresh choice for your lawn. If you have full sun and enough water, Wintergreen Couch will bring the rest!
Unique Features
Wintergreen Couch’s advantages are obvious from it’s name:
- High frost tolerance
- Excellent colour throughout the year
- Fantastic wearability
Toughness: 4/5 for toughness
Wintergreen Couch was used across ANZ Stadium – it can take quite a pounding from foot traffic, children’s games and pets. It thrives in many types of soils and has a good disease resistance; as its name suggests it also has better frost tolerance than many other Sydney turf supplies varieties.
Sun and Shade: 1/5 for shade tolerance
Like many couch grasses, Wintergreen Couch needs full sun positioning to thrive.
Water Usage: 3/5 stars for water usage
Wintergreen Couch can be mowed quite low – but you’ll need to ensure you’re giving it adequate water at lower heights.
Mowing: Cylinder or rotary
King’s Pride Buffalo will tolerate mowing heights as low as 15mm
Soil pH: 6.5 – 7.0
Maintenance: 3/5 for maintenance
You’ll need to stay on top of your mowing with Wintergreen Couch.
Should I Use Wintergreen Couch?
If you live in a frost-prone area or a generally cool climate, and are looking for a soft yet hard-wearing grass, Wintergreen Couch is the perfect option. Be prepared to do a little work to keep this hardy and somewhat aggressive variety in line – but once you have Wintergreen Couch well controlled, it offers many advantages.
Wintergreen Couch is a fine-leafed lawn similar to other couches on the market, with the main difference being Wintergreen handles frost a little better. This turf is most suited to sunny areas and can also handle a position with a little shade. It can tolerate wear and tear well and is also quite disease resistant.
Wintergreen Couch is a great warm climate couch. It is a Fine textured grass with a very dense growth pattern making it soft and comfortable to feel. Wintergreen Couch is ideal for areas that receive a great amount of wear and tear from traffic; it is also suitable for council footpaths etc, and if fertilised Wintergreen Couch retains colour a little better in winter.
Wintergreen couch can tolerate a wide range of soils and grows easily in different environment.
