This grass is engineered to thrive in deep shade and requires minimal water, making it an ideal choice for challenging environments. Its resilience and adaptability to low-water conditions ensure it maintains its quality and appearance, even in areas with limited irrigation. This grass blend continues to be a trusted option for a variety of high-demand settings.
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This grass thrives in areas where sunlight is scarce, maintaining a vibrant green color even in deep shade. It establishes quickly, requiring less time to achieve full coverage, and offers the benefits of reduced maintenance over time. Known for its longevity and resilience, this grass exhibits aggressive growth, ensuring a durable and persistent turf. If left unmowed, the foliage can reach a height of approximately 6 inches, while the seed heads extend to a height of 10 to 12 inches. This growth pattern provides a lush and dense turf that can thrive in shaded areas, offering an attractive and low-maintenance option for your lawn.
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This resilient grass excels in cold environments and truly shines in shaded areas. Poa Supina is weather-resistant and ready for high-traffic use, thriving particularly well in the chilly climates of the German and Austrian Alps sub-alpine regions. Known in Germany as "Lagerrispe," or "where the cows lay," it’s tough enough to flourish on well-worn cattle trails and in shaded woodlands. Its robust nature makes it an ideal choice for challenging conditions, providing durability and consistent performance where other grasses may falter. With a proven track record of over twenty years, it has been successfully utilized for golf courses, lawns, and athletic fields.
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This turf is optimized for shaded areas and exhibits exceptional cold tolerance, making it ideal for USDA Zones 3 to 7. Supranova shade grass typically germinates within 14 to 21 days and features an upright growth habit with slow vertical development, spreading effectively by stolons. Well-adapted to shaded and high-traffic areas, it competes strongly with other grasses, even under frequent mowing and soil compaction. The grass should be mowed for the first time when it reaches 2 inches, and it can be trimmed as low as 3/16 of an inch.
Supranova Poa Supina is the elite shade grass for dense shade in cool season areas. This is the best primo shade lawn grass on market today. It is specially designed for deep shade and little water although it has been used for golf courses, lawns, and athletic field turf for over twenty years. Supranova shade grass has been developed over the last 20 years and the breeding keeps improving.
No other species outperforms this variety in the shade. It grows where no grass has grown before. It’s wear tolerance and aggressive growth make it ideal high maintenance and high wear areas. Today Supranova Poa supina shade grass seed produces the most shade tolerant, wear resistant, cool season grass on the market.
Poa Supina is well adapted to cold temperatures and is found commonly in the sub-alpine regions of the German and Austrian Alps. In Germany, the common name is Lägerrispe, which means, "where the cows lay". The name is a reflection of the ability of Poa supina to persist and even thrive on cattle trails, even in shaded woodland areas. Another attractive asset is the apparent resistance of Poa supina to many diseases which results in fewer fungicide applications. Unfortunately, the cost of grass seed for shade is quite high; therefore, the practicality of seeding mono-stands of the grass is often economically unfeasible. Evidence from Germany suggests relatively low rates (e.g., less than 10%) of Poa supina seed can be mixed with other cool season grasses and after several years of heavy traffic the stand will be predominantly Poa supina, providing superior coverage compared to stands without Poa supina.
We have gone the extra mile to include 25% of Poa supina in our shade grass mix so you get faster results and better performance. We mix it with Poa Trivialis which is also very shade tolerant. CPoa Trivialis thrives when cool, moist conditions prevail which is your typical Northern Climate shade. Poa Trivialis seed produces a fine-textured turf grass and develops a high shoot density under cool, moist conditions. It is capable of withstanding a considerable amount of shade. It is one of the most winter hardy turf grasses with very good low temperature tolerance. When you combine Creeping Fescue and Poa supina into one mix, you get the absolute best grass seed for shade for cooler climates at an economical price.
This mixture approximately contains the following:
- 25% Supranova Poa Supina Bluegrass
- 75% Poa Trivialis
- Germination: This shade grass seed typically germinates in 14 - 21 days.
- Growth habit: Poa supina shade grass has upright growth habit with a slow vertical growth. Spreads by stolons. When left unmowed, height of foliage is 6 inches with seed head height 10 to 12 inches.
- Adaptation: Poa supina has adapt well to shaded conditions and high traffic areas where soil compaction occurs. Very competitive with other grasses in situations of frequent mowing and traffic.
- Mowing: After Poa supina shade grass reaches 2" mow for the first time. After this it may be mowed as low as 3/16 of an inch.
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