The effect of different environmental conditions on visual merit of turf grasses.

Sławomir Prończuk

Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute—National Research Institute, Radzików, 05–870 Błonie; (Poland)

Grzegorz Żurek

Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute—National Research Institute, Radzików, 05–870 Błonie; (Poland)

Abstract

Three different types of environmental conditions were used in five years of turf grass evaluation: no.1 – in sun, moderately intensive management with irrigation; no.2 – in park shade, extensively managed but irrigated when necessary; no.3 – in park shade, extensively managed and not irrigated. Visual merit (VM) of following cultivars was scored in 1 – 9 scale: perennial ryegrass Stadion, red fescue Nimba, smooth-stalked meadow grass Conni, tall fescue Asterix, prostrate meadow grass Supranova and tufted hairgrass Brok...

Keywords:

Deschamspia cespitosa, Festuca arundinacea, Poa pratensis, Poa supina, Lolium perenne, Festuca rubra, turf maintenance, shade