This photograph of Mr & Mrs M’s lawn in Winterslow was taken just after we had carried out a spring scarify, looking good as we go into the summer and well worthy of a place on our lawn showcase page!
Lawntech‘s comments about this lawn
The big question here is, do I want a fescue lawn? This lawn looks superb and is a very good case study to explain what we mean by “do I want a fescue lawn?” In short, the answer is, yes please, there is nothing better than a well-manicured top quality fescue lawn, in fact many fescue lawns often have an element of dwarf ryegrass in the mix as well just to keep it a bit more resilient. In this case Mr & Mrs M’s lawn is predominantly fescue with a small amount of fine dwarf ryegrass.
Let us explain a little more about fine Fescue lawns. As with most things in life, if you want something to look or perform exceptionally well it must be of good quality in the first place. It will need a lot more care and maintenance than normal to keep it looking great, so in some ways this is the slight downside of having a fine fescue lawn; it will need quite a lot of regular maintenance to keep it looking good. Fescue is the grass favoured by lawn specialists and green keepers because of it’s fine dense sward, but to keep it this way it needs regular scarifying and aeration, ideally twice per year, as well a very frequent mowing, down to as low as 10mm, if possible. The reason for this is that the fescue grass plant has rhizomes which tend to readily build up thatch if not controlled, this is why green keepers are frequently out with their machines tending to fine sport playing surfaces.
If you have a fine fescue lawn like Mr & Mrs M we would be more than happy to advice on the best bespoke lawn care programme.
