However, good cultural practices are so expensive and time consuming that few homeowners are prepared to maintain a bentgrass lawn. The primary use of bentgrass is on golf course greens. When found in a home lawn, bentgrass is usually considered a weed. Bentgrass is not compatible with Kentucky bluegrass and should never be included in a lawn seed mixture. Tall Fescue Tall fescue should not be confused with the fine-leafed fescues.
Tall fescue has good tolerance to intense wear, heat, stress, and drought.
Also, these varieties lack adequate winter hardiness in northern portions of the state. Zoysiagrass turns straw colored with the first hard freeze in the fall and remains brown until early summer. It is established vegetatively by springs or plugs and generally requires two or more growing seasons for establishment. Meyer and Midwest are relatively winter hardy cultivars in southern Michigan. Emerald will winter-kill severely.