Bermuda Grass - Varieties
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Common Bermuda Grass Is The Most Planted

Even so ... Common Bermudagrass is still one of the most planted varieties in seed form. Common Bermuda Grass is cheaper and more economical that the vegetative selections, having dense growth, fast to establish speed, low cost of seed along with good overall characteristics make it still a popular choice for lawn and pasture needs. We sell an improved form of common bermuda seed at common bermuda seed pricing - Sahara is an excellent choice where cost is a major factor.

This is a perennial sod former, with a dark green color, spreads by rhizomes and stolons - developing into a low growing, good quality turfgrass or forage. The common Bermuda also has a high degree of insect and disease tolerance. It is well adapted to salt spray and coastal settings and has an extensive root system for drought tolerance. Overall it is a low cost, persistent, aggressive vegetation.

• When to Plant Bermuda Seeds for best success?
• What do we mean by Premium, Medium and Basic input Bermuda grasses?
• Directions on Establishment Of Bermuda from seeds
• Concerns about Seed head production or Pollen production?
  
• USE OF SEEDED VARIETIES FOR GREENS?
  Seeded varieties are generally NOT recommended for high quality putting greens - they are fairway quality grasses. If the highest quality and true ball roll is not a requirement, then the newer seeded varieties can work satisfactorily for a basic home type green.
• Overseeding Tifway 419 with a seeded variety?
• Read How to Plant your lawn with seeds

Are now available in both seeded and vegetative (sod and sprigs) established varieties. The newer varieties are finer and can usually be mowed lower and look noticeably different from common varieties. For a nice lawn or for sports field applications most any of the Medium Quality Bermudas make excellent choices and are considered fairway quality varieties (used on basic type golf fairways).  The Triangle Blend is probably the most popular of these varieties.  Turftype Bermuda, La Prima, Mohawk, and Savannah are also excellent cultivar blends.  These varieties are usually be mowed above 1" with a conventional mower and below that with reel mowers.  They look their best at heights from 1.5 to 2.5 inches, but can usually accommodate heights as low as as 3/4 inches.

TRANSITION ZONE CHOICES (States with Cooler winter temps)

Mohawk, La Prima and Prima XD Yukon are excellent choices for cooler climate areas (transition zone states)  where lower winter temperatures often cause winter kill in common Bermudagrass.  Mohawk and Yukon are the most "cold tolerant" and higher quality bermuda in a seeded form that will survive cold winters with the least amount of winter kill damage.

PREMIUM FAIRWAY & LAWN QUALITY

For top quality, higher input - PREMIUM fairway quality (frequently mowed 4-6 times week with a reel mower) turf used for sports fields, lawns and other uses... especially where a thick, fine, dense low-mowable (green heights) grass is needed... the Princess 77 and Yukon, and Riviera Bermudas are the best choices. The Prima XDBlend is on the high end of medium input and makes a beautiful dense lawn with a slightly more economical cost than planting just Princess.  Princess 77 and the Prima-XD will provide you with compatible quality to Tif-419 lawns. (Visit NTEP to see comparisons).

VIEW PICTURES  OF SEEDED VARIETIES

Improved Common Bermuda Grass "Improved" common types are mostly seeded varieties and are darker green, deeper rooted, medium textured and moderately denser compared to the common Bermudagrass. They are general purpose, turf-type Bermuda grasses used for lawns, parks, roadsides and sports turfs. These should be used in areas where improved characteristics are desired when compared to common but quality and level of maintenance will be lower than the vegetative hybrid improved cultivars. Seedland sells several turf-type "seeded" improved varieties. The vegetative hybrids are generally used in more intensive maintenance turfs such as low mowed and fine golf greens. Hybrids can only be established from sod or sprigs.

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Seeded Bermuda Grass Turf Type Varieties

Pennington Seed & Seed West Bermuda Grass Varieties

THE NEW IMPROVED VARIETIES SHOWN BELOW IN ARIZONA TRIAL PLOTS

A FEW CERTIFIED VARIETIES (Listed below) ALL CAN BE PLANTED & ESTABLISHED FROM SEED: And.... All are Available at Seedland.com!

Sahara: is a seeded variety that is an improvement over the common variety. It is wear tolerant, drought tolerant and has a dense turf. Excellent for athletic fields parks areas with a high degree of traffic. Low growing, low fertilization schedules and beautiful green color. Mown lawns at 1-1 ½ inches. -- Learn more about SAHARA.

Triangle Blend: is the next generation of an improved turf type seeded variety that is fast growing, dark green color, drought resistant, medium texture. Thus blend has an excellent cold tolerance for a Bermuda grass variety --- Learn more about TRIANGLE Blend. Triangle Blend is an economical planting medium quality variety.

Mohawk: is a seeded turf type variety with improved cold tolerance.  Improved to provide more cold tolerance survival of low winter temperatures in the Northern transition zone area. --- Read about MOHAWK. - Cold tolerant varieties such as Mohawk generally are slightly slower to green-up in spring, as part of their cold tolerance genetic makeup tends to keep them dormant slightly longer than less cold tolerant Bermuda varieties.

WE SUGGEST PRIMA XD, MOHAWK or LA PRIMA
IF YOU ARE PLANTING IN A COOLER TRANSITION AREA (North of Atlanta GA).

Our two most popular lawn Bermuda Seed Blends:

Bermuda Triangle: Bermuda Triangle is a 3-way blend of improved turf types Sultan, Sydney and Mohawk. - Available only in 25 LB containers.  One of the better choices in a blend. It is our MOST POPULAR seed seller for new lawns and sports field applications.

LaPrima Bermuda Blend: La Prima is a 2-way blend of improved turf type Bermuda varieties La Paloma and SR-9554.

IMPROVED TURF & LAWN TYPES - BERMUDA GRASS:

• Turftype-Bermuda: Turftype is a blend of varieties selected from such as Yuma, Sultan, Sydney, and Mohawk. - Available now in 3 and 7 lb. packages for planting smaller lawn areas. Great Blend for home lawns. Very popular for small planting areas.
• Bermuda Triangle Blend: This is one of our most popular Medium Quality Bermudas. It is used extensively for sports fields, play grounds, home lawns and even on fairways. Triangle Blend is a professional turf blend of 3 turf type varieties from Pennington Seed. Generally includes a mix of Sultan, Sydney and Mohawk.
• LaPrima Blend: An attractive 2-way Bermuda blend of turf varieties packaged by Seed Research of Oregon. Read more about LaPrima Bermuda Blend of SRO9554 & Paloma improved varieties of Bermudagrass seed.
• Oasis Blend: Is a premium blend of three seeded varieties. Oasis Bermuda is specially blended for use in Southern to transition zone lawns Available in 25 lbs sizes - Coated seeds.
• Prima-XD: Is on of the newer turf type blends with good color, density and turf quality developed by Seed Research. Read more about Prima XD. Currently this blend is a mix of Princess 77, Yukon and Paloma varieties.
• Princess 77: Pennington's Princess 77 is a one of the newer "high quality" fairway type Bermudas developed out of a private breeding program. Its dense texture and good color, coupled with low mowing heights make it a popular choice for HOW warm season areas of the Southern US states for sports fields, parks, stadiums, golf fairways and home lawns.
• Savannah is one of the new "Southern" Savannah Bermuda selections.
• Yukon Bermuda is a new highly ranked Bermuda that also has good cold tolerance. It grows well from Florida to North of Tennessee. Yukon is highly ranked in the NTEP trials.

BERMUDA GRASS ALMOST PUTTING GREEN QUALITY!

Currently Princess 77 , and Yukon are the latest improved varieties, with seeds now available.  Costs of these seed are high... but compared to sodding a similar hybrid variety for comparable quality, they are usually much cheaper to establish. You will find these varieties used for home greens where a perfect green quality is NOT required. While used for some home greens they are NOT green quality varieties and are not use for greens on most golf courses (For greens you need a hybrid quality GREEN variety.)

These improved seeds are generally in limited supply because this grass is a very fine type suitable for golf course use and even home putting green usage.  Princess 77 and Yukon seeds are fairly expensive (Often selling for 8-10 times the price of common) as they are more difficult to produce... and are currently only available in limited quantities with demand often exceeding supply. Riviera and Yukon generally sell out each spring due to limited production. Supplies of Princess are also short but lately have been available year round.

Improved Bermudas That Are Sodded or Sprigged By Vegetative Means:

Ormond has medium texture and turf density and has about the darkest green with blue tint of the Bermuda grasses. Ormond was introduced in the early sixties and has since been a success for athletic fields, golf course use. The variety of this grass is not sold to the public. Bermuda grass mite and dollar spot disease are its major problems.

Tifdwarf was introduced in the sixties and has a dark green color and is extensively used for putting greens and due to the high maintenance requirements it is not used for lawns. It is a very dark green, very low growth habit, with dense turf. And normally requires over seeding in the winter and comes back as soon as the weather warms up. It is susceptible to caterpillar and mole cricket damage in the areas frequented by these pests. - www.lawnplugs.com

Bermuda Grass Hybrid Variety Sods

NOTE: Hybrid varieties do NOT produce seeds - To plant or replace these varieties you must obtain and use either plugs, sprigs or sod. Contact a local landscape or sodding company as to availability of these varieties in your area.

Tifgreen has a beautiful dark green color, and has a ground hugging growth making it ideal on golf courses, athletic fields used for tennis, softball, baseball, and in countries where lawn games such as croquet, cricket, lawn bowling badminton is popular because of the fine texture and density. It is a high maintenance grass requiring watering, fertilization and frequent mowing to retain the low even height it is popular and is probably the most used of the Bermuda varieties.

Tif 419 - 419 Bermuda is an improved variety that is vegetatively established. Used extensively on sodded Football and Baseball fields. Also used on many golf course greens in the south. Plugs of this variety are available at www.lawnplugs.com . The closest to this variety in a seeded Bermuda would be Princess 77 , Prima XD Blend, or Yukon. Of these three Yukon probably becomes the closest to looking the same, however all varieties planted side by side will exhibit certain differences in texture and color. The best option if trying to improve / increase the density of a hybrid Tif lawn is to overseed all areas of the lawn with the replacement variety to try to minimize any visual differences the eye may observe.

Tifway 419 and Celebration are the only hybrid plug varieties that we sell for more info see Lawnplugs.com

There are many, many more of both sodded (vegetative) and seeded varieties available to the consumer to plant. Some are actual varieties that came out of public (university) or private breeding programs. Some are simply selections that a particular sod company has decided to name and sell as it's "own" private label named variety.

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