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From: gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Help with lawn selection needed
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 14:28:42 EDT
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In article <> piety@hplabs.UUCP (Bob Piety ) writes:
>I am thinking about planting a lawn in a sunny, dry area which I don't want
>to water very much.  Reading various pieces of literature has helped me
>narrow my choice to Zoysia (Japonica, Meyer, or Z-52) or Tifgreen Bermuda.

I have zoysia in my front yard (sorry, don't remember which
kind, it's listed in the Sunset New Western Garden book (which I
highly recommend) with the common name Korean Grass).  Zoysia is
typically bought in flats, and you put plugs in your yard at 
intervals.  The plugs will spread and grow together in a year or
less depending on how closely they are placed.  It did get a
little brown in spots during the winter.  Spring came, I started
fertilizing it, and it's now a pretty emerald green, with bumps
where the plugs went in.  Much more interesting-looking than
your typical grass lawn.  

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Gail Bayley Hanrahan
Calma Company, San Diego
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