fescue

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While fescue is a good grass I don't recommend it for Texas.

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grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

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noun

grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

Definitions

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noun

grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

Example sentences

While fescue is a good grass I don't recommend it for Texas.

On my lawn I have clover, daisies, dandelions, and fescue.

It will look like prairie grass, and not necessarily like the archetypal, deep-green fescue patch.

Generally the experts recommend tall fescue, which is a cool-season grass bred to withstand drought and hot summers.

I play golf in Massachusetts and basically refuse to go hunting for a ball that's in fescue because that tall grass is loaded with ticks.

You just described turf-type tall fescue, which is the recommended low-maintenance lawn for the mid-Atlantic.

Unlike Kentucky bluegrass, which spreads with rhizomes, tall fescue tends to grow in bunches so it requires occasional overseeding to keep it thick.

Huh, no way am I fertilising or spraying weeds out on my lawn, as far as I can tell it's your basic tall fescue grass with some clover and self seeded violets thrown in the mix, and its main function is being trampled by kids.

Instead of disrupting ecosystems by planting rows and rows of monocultures, grasslands of clover, millet, bluegrass, plantain timothy, sweet grass, fescue, etc. are sustainably nurtured by ruminants.