New Varieties
Kentucky Bluegrass 

Bewitched Kentucky Bluegrass

Bewitched (A99-2041) is a compact type with a low compact growth habit which makes it an excellent candidate for golf course fairways and sod farms due to it’s reduced vertical growth rates and 1/2 inch height of cut. Bewitched is excellent for blending with America types and Midnight types because it possesses disease resistance which the other types do not.

Blackberry Kentucky Bluegrass

Blackberry (A99-3108) is an America Type Bluegrass. Within the group of compact types, this cultivar exhibits similar growth and performance characteristics of the variety “America”.

Blackberry has a higher density and finer leaf texture than most other compact types. It’s low, compact growth makes for excellent turf including golf course fairways because it can be mowed at 1/2 inch cutting height. While good in shade, Blackberry possesses moderate winter dormancy and high summer patch and powdery mildew resistance.


Boomerang
This new bluegrass is tops in genetic color and fine texture. Comparable in turf quality to Midnight Kentucky Bluegrass, this poa pratensis has heat and drought tolerance, and exceptional resistance to diseases like dollar spot and summer patch. Comparative tests show that this variety will shine under different management regimes wherever bluegrasses are adapted.

Bravado Kentucky Bluegrass

Bravado (A96-1353) is a compact type Kentucky bluegrass. It is characterized by a low, compact growth habit and possesses good to excellent resistance to leaf spot disease. I t forms highly attractive turf after green-up in spring. Performance during summer heat and drought stress can be variable, with Bravado producing very good turf quality. Bravado also has excellent resistance to strip smut disease.

Specialty Grasses 
Contessa Bermudagrass Contessa Bermudagrass
A "princess" type bermudagrass with color and texture that parallels even the best sprigged-type bermudas.
Intrigue Chewings Fescue

Intrigue Chewings Fescue
Intrigue (DDE) Fescue (festuca Rubra) is a turf type cultivar selected from 36 progenies of which contained the Epichloe Endophyte. These clones trace their origins to plans selected from plants originally selected from old turf of the Northeastern region of the United States starting in 1962. Selected clones were chosen based on attractive, rich, dark-green color, disease resistance, and high shoot density with a lower growing turf type growth profile.



Minotaur
Minotaur is the first commercial cross between Blue fescue and Hard Fescue. It is an advanced generation synthetic cultivar that produces a dense tufted turf with a green to blue green foliage. The high levels of endophyte and short plant height and flag leaf length make it an excellent low maintenance grass.

Perennial Ryegrass 

Manhattan 5 GLR

Manhattan 5 GLR
The legend for top performance continues... Manhattan 5, an elite turfgrass variety with a high endophyte level, darker green color, better summer color retention and improved rust resistance. Fine leaf texture with lower growing habit. Improved mowing quality, and improved tiller density for greater wear tolerance. The best just got better!



Pizzazz
PIZZAZZ promises to set the standard for the next decade. Its dark green color and dense turf make it an attractive choice for parks, home lawn, and golf courses. Clonal selections contained high levels of endophytes, and this synthetic variety is lower growing than many older varieties.

Promise Perennial Ryegrass

Promise
The new selection has unusually dark-green color and a high endophyte count. It produces lush green turf under various soil types and climatological conditions. As a single variety, or in blends, Promise represents the culmination of Perennial Ryegrass breeding to date.

Protege GLR Perennial Ryegrass Protege GLR
Improved turf quality, improved gray leaf spot resistance, dark green color, and a high percentage of neotyphodium endophytes.
Prowler Turf Type Perennial Ryegrass

Prowler
This lolium Perenne produces a dark-green, fine textured turf. Clones were selected based on their exceptional heat tolerance and mowability. Prowler has a high percentage of endophytes and quick establishment, making this an ideal choice for permanent turf wherever perennial ryegrasses thrive.

Turf Type Tall Fescue 
Finesse Turf Type Tall Fescue

Finesse
Finesse has very dark green color, brown patch resistance, a leafy lower turf-type growth habit, finer leaves, and exceptional turf density. From the same program that brought you Millennium tall fescue, Finesse also has improved resistance to leaf spot, tolerance of heat and drought, and shows excellent seed vigor. It has a high level of beneficial endophytes that have proven to enhance the performance of turf especially under stressful conditions.

Focus Turf Type Tall Fescue

Focus
A fourth generation turf-type, Focus is intended for use on discerning sod farms, parks, golf courses, and home lawns wherever fescues are adapted. Focus is darker, finer, and more drought tolerant than other tall fescues. Add to this a high level of endophyte and a near freedom from disease. This makes Focus one of the lowest maintenance tall fescues available.

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