Red fescue belongs to perennial herbaceous plants and has a highly branched root system. This grass is dark green in color with a leaf width of 1 to 2 millimeters. In the first year it grows slowly. The final formation of the plant occurs in the second or third year. The culture develops beautifully on sandy and loamy soils. Red fescue is common in floodplain and upland meadows, chalky slopes, in the mountains, in drained swamps. Grass lives in forest and forest-steppe zones. The most favorable soils for this plant are quite moist, loose, rich in humus, well-drained light loamy and loamy soils.
This grass is very quickly restored after a variety of mechanical damage, tolerates regular mowing (up to 40 mm) and trampling. With a high level of agricultural technology, life expectancy can be up to ten years. Red fescue is a frost-resistant grass that grows both in the shade and in a brightly lit place. As a rule, after sowing, seedlings appear in about ten days.
The plant is used to create a variety of lawns. Its main value lies in the fact that even in a dry summer its leaves remain bright green. Red fescue grows intensively, grows very quickly, forming at the same time a beautiful carpet of green color. This plant is characterized by high nutrition and digestibility. Grass contains a significant amount of minerals, as well as protein. Red fescue tolerates grazing, grows actively after winter, intensively develops, forms a good afternoon. Due to these properties, this plant is widely used in culture in the process of organizing long-term pastures and lawns.
Gray fescue lives in Central and Eastern Europe, Western Ukraine, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and the Urals. The grass has blue-gray leaves. The sheet plate is narrow, linear, from gray to blue-steel color. The plant is thermophilic, grows best in sunny areas with sandy soils.
Three to four years after planting, the bush is separated. Experts recommend replanting the plant every two years to obtain an intense color of the leaves. Gray fescue is often used as a groundcover, but in this case it is quite difficult to maintain the uniform growth of each bush. Sometimes individual plants die in the center, it is especially common in dry summers or wet winters. Therefore, to restore the decorative areas, it is always necessary to have some stock of planting material.
Fescue meadow - a grassy cereal plant reaching a height of 120 centimeters. This plant has a fibrous root system. The roots of meadow fescue penetrate up to 150 cm in depth. Red fescue turf is much stronger than meadow fescue. The stems of the plant are numerous and erect, in the lower nodes can be curved. In addition to generative shoots, meadow fescue forms a significant number of shortened, well-leafy vegetative ones. Leaves are dark green up to 8 mm wide and up to 300 mm long.
In the spring, vegetative stems grow very quickly. In the first year of its life, the plant is characterized by intensive growth, however, generative shoots are formed only in the second year. The specified cereal is shade-tolerant, frost-resistant, withstands severe frosts under snow, and dies under ice. Meadow fescue tolerates flooding with melt water. The plant is very demanding on soil conditions.