In my region (Tennessee) the most popular intentional lawn grass Tall Fescue, which is very soft, but it doesn’t spread laterally, so when gaps happen due to heat and such, spiky/hard crab grass fills in the gaps, and isn’t killed by most weed killers since it’s also grass, so un-maintained lawns quickly get taken over.
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echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoOne of the things I remember when I visited Florida as a kid from the UK was how weird their grass was. It’s all spiky.
And kept trying to point this out but for some bizarre reason my parents weren’t interested.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fefellama@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s called St Augustine grass and it’s everywhere down there since it’s supposedly very hardy, heat resistant, and salt resistant, which is important in hot, wet, and salty Florida. And I know exactly what you mean about the spikiness; it’s not soft at all.