Choosing a Mixture

Do you know your grasses?

Perennial Ryegrass is a fast establishing, hard- wearing component of most seed mixtures. Always ensure you obtain the dwarf types which have been specifically bred for high shoot density and fineness of leaf.

Strong Creeping Red Fescue is the grass type that is often used for binding the lawn together due to its compact growth. It has good resistance to red thread, which is a common disease of lawn grasses.

Smooth-Stalked Meadow Grass provides excellent wear tolerance and has a good tolerance to drought. It has a fine attractive dark leaf blade.

Bent Grass provides a base to the lawn and good winter greenness. It is a good component to give the lawn a tighter appearance. Bent grasses are used for establishing and overseeding attractive, fine turf areas where a more ornamental type lawn is required. Resistant to fungal disease.

Chewings Fescue and Slender Creeping Red Fescue are fine leaved and tolerant of close mowing giving dense fine ground cover.

AberNile is the new ryegrass developed by IGER & British Seed Houses that stays green all year round. It also has excellent wear tolerance and is the bedrock seed type in the new SO-GREEN mixture.

Trials have demonstrated that mixing 60% AberNile with 35% Slender Creeping Red Fescue and 5% Avalon Velvet Bent (grasses well known for their fine turf and aesthetic green colour benefits) delivers the best all season, greener lawn grass that also wears well. For more details on this revolutionary seed mix, please see SO-GREEN.

British Seed Houses strongly recommend SO-GREEN as the mixture for best wear characteristics and all year aesthetic appearance.

There are a number of other grass seed mixtures under the products range that have been designed for specific situations using the grass types above.