Re: [SG] Support for Fescue

I'm having some success getting creeping red fescue to grow in shade - high
shade - but almost no sun.

Rosemary in the mountains of eastern KY
zone 6a


At 12:15 PM 2/26/99 -0600, you wrote:
>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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