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Images. Improved cultivars look and grow like other popular lawn grasses, with the added benefit of being heat and drought. Fine fescue lawn grass is able to grow in windy, dry, cold and shady environments.
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In its preferred growing zones, tall fescue provides lawn owners with outstanding options for improving lawn resilience and durability. Fescue grass is a large group of grasses with hundreds of species. This grass tolerates lots of soil types, and it can handle shade as well as sun exposure.
These types of grasses can vary greatly across the zone as different species are more well equipped than others to handle either the arid or humid climates.
Fine and turf type fescues are very versatile and can be used for lush lawns although tall fescue tolerates low fertility, it responds to fertilization, particularly nitrogen. It is coarse bladed and dense, and grows well is shady areas. Chewings fescue is a perennial grass that is extremely easy to grow, tolerating drought, acidic soils and shade. None of the fine fescue types of grass do well with foot traffic.
