Support for Fescue

At 4:52 AM 2/22/99, Kenda Skaggs wrote:
>Hi everyone!


Hi Kenda! if you send me your zip code I will tell you your zone if you
haven t' heard yet.

>I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma and have lived at this house for 11 years.  Since
>moving in I have been trying desparately, in vein, to grow fescue in my
>backyard.  We also had a pool installed about a year ago.  Numerous landscapers
>have suggested that I cut down some of the trees in my backyard to allow grass
>or other plants to grow -- which I will not do!!  When we had the pool put in
>we only cut down the trees that were absolutely necessary rather than clear the
>yard like the pool company wanted.

Fescue is a cold season grass it won't tolerate the heat that we get in
this part of the country. I am in AL.
I don't know about soils etc there, which could be making a diffence. You
might check with your extensions office on the likely-hood of fescue being
hardy in your area.
It should grow well under the trees  but needs SOME sun.  I was led to
beleive Tuesday in class that it won't perform well in the HOT sun.
confused on this as living in CALIFORNIA it was the preffered grass there.
otoh I was near SF and it was rarely REALLY HOT like here.

poo-poo on the landscapers who dislike your trees. they can live wiht high
A/C bills and ugly (imHo) properties, we don't all have to look like them.
if you continue to look you should find someone with your sensibilities, or
at least to want your buisness and keep their mouth shut after you tell
them what you the client desires.

You have considered ground covers but not happy with the selections?
unfortunatly unless these trees are deciduous and they provide total shade
you may not be ABLE to grow grass. to much work for our backs anyway, start
a trend skip the grass!
There is a least one I will look up that is *invasive* in the shade if you wish.

maybe you have had other good advice, back to clearing my overflow mail.


--leslie

Master Gardener Intern (Student),  Zone 7a low of 9F this year in not yet
Humid Cullman, Alabama.

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