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Floratam
St. Augustine Grass Plugs
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Improved Selection From Bitter
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Finer Textured Than Bitter Blue
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Beautiful Blue Green Color
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A popular choice among Florida
homeowners, Floratam is adaptable to many soil
conditions. With a plush appearance, Floratam thrives in
direct sunlight.
Description from
Florida IFAS
website:
"Floratam
is an improved St. Augustine grass that was released
jointly in 1973 by the University of Florida and Texas A
& M. Floratam is the most widely produced and used St.
Augustinegrass in Florida. It is a coarse-textured
cultivar that has poor cold and shade tolerance. It will
thin in direct relation to the amount of shade received.
It grows vigorously in the warmer, but has a relatively
long period of dormancy in north Florida and greens-up
more slowly in the spring than some cultivars. It has
some degree of chinch bug and SADV resistance, although
new strains of chinch bugs that can damage Floratam have
been identified. Floratam is tolerant of atrazine
herbicides when temperatures are below 85°F."
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Floratam is a variety of St. Augustine
selected for the control of St . Augustine Decline (SAD)
disease. Floratam is a fast-growing, vigorous, dark
green, broad-leafed St. Augustine grass. In areas where
St. Augustine is subject to freeze damage, Floratam will
be later to green up in the spring and is subject to
severe winter kill. Floratam is highly tolerant to Brown
Patch and to chinch bugs.
More info about
Saint Augustine grass is available at
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LH010. |
Climate - Adaptive in USDA
Plant Hardiness Zones 9-11
Use:
Residential or Commercial
- Dark Green color
- Coarse texture
- Fair Shade Tolerance
- Fair wear resistance
- Good injury recovery
- Fair salt tolerance
- Excellent drought tolerance
- Mowing Height: 2"-3"
- Mowing Frequency: Weekly - Rotary Mower
ST AUGUSTINE INFORMATION ARTICLES
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LH010
http://www.landscape-america.com/grasses/augustine.html
http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/turf/publications/staug.html
http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/turf/staugust2.html
MAINTAINING ST. AUGUSTINE:
NC Extension (PDF):
St. Augustinegrass Lawn Maintenance Calendar
FloridaTurf:
St.
Augustinegrass - chinch bugs, shade, watering, weeds.
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Important - Shipping Restrictions:
Due to state agricultural regulations on soils We can not
ship our Grass Plugs to the following states:
Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada & Washington.
Due to shipping time constraints we do not ship any plugs outside USA mainland States.
(IE: Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, US Islands) There are no
restrictions on seeds shipped to these states.
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Shipment Dates: Our grass plugs ship
year-round every Monday for all orders placed the previous week.
Orders must be placed by 10 am EST on Friday in order to ship the
following week. Since we ship orders once they are placed, please
order only if you are ready to plant.
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