So before you move to the desert perhaps consider the upkeep of landscaping your new home.
Types of sod grass arizona.
As such we ll be primarily focusing on warm season grasses.
Cool season grasses include tall fescue perennial ryegrass and kentucky bluegrass.
Matrella and mascarengrass zoysia tenufolia.
Cool season grasses such as ryegrass bluegrass and turf type fescue are also used in cooler climate zones in arizona particularly the north part of arizona and higher elevations.
The first thing to understand about grass is something called sod groups.
Most arizona sod in the hottest areas of the state consists of bermuda grass.
E z turf midiron tifway tifway ii santa ana bob sod bank one ballpark turf and tifsport.
Bobsod can be mowed with either a rotary or reel mower and be overseeded with bobseed perennial ryegrass for winter color.
There are two sod groups.
Augustine varieties and bermuda grasses.
Warm season sod includes heat tolerant varieties such as.
Augustinegrass kentucky bluegrass and centipedegrass.
Japonica is the type of zoysia seen in the sunday papers as the amazing amazon.
Below that are our picks for your state which will do best in your area.
In general try to think of your sod varieties belonging to one of two groups.
These groups are dependent on the time of year you are installing your lawn.
Like all our hybrid bermudas bobsod is a drought tolerant grass and requires very little water compared to cool season grasses like fescue.
For lawn purposes zoysia japonica is the typical grass used.
In arizona for example many locals have summer lawns and winter lawns to keep their grass green year round.
All of these are single plant varieties.
Warm season and cool season.
There are two of these groups warm season and cold season.
Warm season sods include zoysia st.
It is a perennial grass meaning it comes back year after year.
Warm season grasses and cool season grasses.
Below is the usda zone map for arizona so you can determine which zone you reside in.
Zoysiagrass is composed of three species which are used for turf purposes.
Sod university discusses different types of common sod grass varieties.
These include the following varieties.
This warm season turf grass is best suited to the heat and will stay green and continue to grow as long as it has enough water.
There are several commercially available sterile hybrid bermudagrasses for use in arizona for lawns.
Bermuda grass such as tifway midiron and others st.
They do this by growing bermuda grass in the summer and ryegrass in the winter.
Its active season is usually from may to september.