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Low Growing Grass?

Low Growing Grass?

Low Growing Grass?

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Does anyone have any experience or know of a type of vegetation that grows no taller then 2' and will not require mowing?  I have a site that I am developing and the neighbors are being permitted to have a say in the final site design and they have requested a low-growing grass (less then 2').  The problem is that this will not be a site where people will be at on a daily basis and maintenance is not something the property owner wants to deal with.  This site is located in SE Pennsylvania.

RE: Low Growing Grass?

Clover.

RE: Low Growing Grass?

Rocks and Roundup

RE: Low Growing Grass?


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Try searching through these resources...

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
http://www.wildflower.org

Jimmy Carter Plant Materials Center
http://plant-materials.nrcs.usda.gov/GAPMC/

US Department of Agriculture PLANTS Database
http://plants.usda.gov

Pennsylvania Coopoerative Extension Service
http://www.extension.psu.edu

Pennsylvania State Turfgrass Management
http://turfgrassmanagement.psu.edu

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RE: Low Growing Grass?

You may look into some of the newer cultivars of "Low mow bluegrass"  golf courses are putting these grasses in the fairways and cutting them around 0.350".  I have used a type called "Nu Destiny" in some grassed areas just to see what it would be like at 2 to 3inches and didn't really have to mow it this year.  The seed manufacture is Jacklyn Seed.  One thing to keep in mind is my area was in a drought and these grasses are slow to establish compared to rye, bent, etc.   

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