[dbow2000]

Greetings all. I just recently purchased this home and am trying to get the front yard into a presentable state. I'm currently letting Tru-Green treat it for weeds, etc. while I figure things out - so far only 1 treatment. It looks like I have some mixture of fescue, bermuda, weeds and something else (maybe centipede?) I'm still reading and learning, but would like to see what you guys think. Hopefully these pictures will help.

This first pic is the patch of ?, the second is a closeup of that patch




Pics 3 and 4 are what I think are some kind of fescue



Pic 5 is a side view of what I think is bermuda with weeds



Not sure yet what grass I want to end up with - maybe st.augustine or zoysia. Needs to be something tolerant of the shade. Thanks for any help.
BTW, I've been told my front yard is about 13k sq ft.
db

 

[Ware]

Bump.

 

[Movingshrub]

You live in Huntsville? Madison? Florence?

 

[dbow2000]

You live in Huntsville? Madison? Florence?

Toney

 

[Guest]

First pic looks close to centipede but it's hard to say. I wouldn't bet the farm on it as to many wide blade grasses can be deceiving. Take a plug out and see if it has any rhizomes. If yes that should rule out st Augustine and centipede grasses

 

[raldridge2315]

I doubt that St. Augustine would do very well here. It may even die out in a really cold winter.

 

[mrigney]

Another Huntsville metro poster. Seems like we've practically taken over the site.

My first guess on the first grass was centipede as well, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Need some close-ups of what you think are fescue and bermuda.

 

[Movingshrub]

Another Huntsville metro poster. Seems like we've practically taken over the site.

If we make a North Alabama thread I'm afraid the warm season section will go dormant.

 

[Guest]

I doubt that St. Augustine would do very well here. It may even die out in a really cold winter.

It may do ok though. We have some St Augustine lawns here in eastern NC and we have some winters down into the single digits. We had a house in our family that had St Augustine grass, it looked pretty good for the zero input it received

 

[dbow2000]

I'll pull a couple of plugs out and post the pics tomorrow. My old house in Madison did well with Bermuda, but in that subdivision there weren't many trees. Out here in the country now though...

So would Zoysia be a better grass for this area than St. Aug?

 

[Movingshrub]

The first picture has the look of centipede. Too pointy for st aug.