Sir Grange Zoysia is one of the world’s best-looking grasses. It’s beautiful carpet like appearance when cut short or its high-end landscaped appearance when left unmown, make it one of the most versatile grasses available.
The Sir Grange Story
Sir Grange is a fine bladed Zoysia Matrella that was hand selected from over 10,000 different turf cultivar varieties.
With geographical adaptability, tolerance to varying pH levels and soils, and a built-in mechanism to extract salts from the soil, it offers great versatility.
Sir Grange was developed by one of the largest turf grass breeders, Blade Runner Farms in Texas by Mr David Douget. Bladerunner Farms has the largest privately owned zoysia grass research facility in the world.
Sir Grange is sold in the USA and Asia under the trademark of BRF Zeon Zoysia. Sir Grange’s superior traits and beautiful dark green leaf have seen it become the top-selling zoysia grass in the USA.
This grass has been used on many world-famous projects such as on the Rio Olympics Golf Course and can also be seen on several courses designed by Greg Norman and Tiger Woods.
Sir Grange was originally developed for the golf industry, but it was soon discovered that due to its characteristics, it would make a fantastic home lawn.
Sir Grange Establishment
Once Sir Grange establishes a root system of 200mm or more it is extremely shade and drought tolerant.
It requires a good sand or sandy loam base of at least 100mm. In cooler climates like Victoria a straight washed sand is recommended to assist in quicker establishment, the more you have the better the lawn will perform.
It is a slow growing lawn so it can take up to 18 weeks of warm season growing conditions to fully establish, however once this is achieved the result is very rewarding.
Sir Grange Maintenance
When fully established it will use very little fertiliser and water, will have high shade tolerance, and require a lot less mowing than most varieties.
- Requires up to 50% less mowing than other common turf varieties
- Can be mowed at a wide range of heights
- Requires 75% less nitrogen than other common turf varieties. In many cases will need little to no fertiliser at all.
You only need to water your established lawn if it looks dry or conditions are extreme. Sir Grange can be mown at regular intervals at a height you desire between 10 and 50mm. Or you can even leave it unmown for landscaped areas of the garden, edges, or slopes.
Fertilising
Fertiliser use should be minimal; only fertilise if your lawn looks hungry and loses colour. If you fertilise, try to use a lawn blend with little to no nitrogen. Something with an NPK blend of 5-5-10, or at 25% of the label rate of a standard lawn fertiliser.
Sir Grange Zoysia is the only licenced and pure source of BRF Zeon Zoysia in Australia.
When purchasing your Sir Grange Zoysia lawn, make sure you are dealing with a genuine Lawn Solutions Australia turf supplier.
You can find the contact details of these suppliers near you here.
