This mix, along with similar mixes, will provide a good quality lawn suitable for sun or partial shade that requires below average to average care. It will die out during the winter so essentially forms a lawn that lasts for a single season. Rough bluegrass is often found in shady grass mixes. It has a light green color and does not blend well with other lawn type grasses. It does, however, do well in moist, shaded sites.
Tall fescue is one of the two worst lawn weeds.
Yet seed is available in most stores. The grass blades always seem to stay taller than the rest of the lawn. No selective control exists for this grass as the chemicals that kill tall fescue also kill other lawn grasses. Pure stands of this wear-tolerant grass are often used on playgrounds or roadsides. Zoysia is a warm season grass that turns brown early in the fall and stays brown until late spring.