Santa Ana Couch Grass
Santa Ana Couch
Santa Ana Couch is a premium fine-leaf turf variety renowned for its exceptional durability, drought tolerance, and attractive bright green colour. Its dense growth habit and fine texture create a soft, carpet-like surface that performs exceptionally well in high-traffic areas.
Thriving in full sun, Santa Ana is an excellent choice for sporting fields, golf courses, parks, and residential lawns where a hard-wearing, low-maintenance turf is required. It particularly excels in hot, dry conditions and develops strong drought tolerance once established.
Santa Ana looks its best when maintained at a low mowing height, producing a smooth, manicured appearance similar to a bowling green. During cooler months and periods of frost, the grass will naturally enter dormancy and may lose some colour, however maintenance and watering requirements are greatly reduced during this time.
For those seeking a resilient, fine-textured lawn with outstanding summer performance and excellent wear tolerance, Santa Ana Couch is a proven performer.
Product Information
| Texture: | Fine to very fine. |
| Description: | Regarded as a semi-dwarf variety that can be managed at low mowing heights. Dark green. Leaf width 2.0-2.8 mm, long leaves (averaging 75 mm). Stolons average 1 mm thick, with rhizomes 1.2 mm thick. The shoot emergence angle is 19° from the horizontal. High shoot density and horizontal growth habit give a flat, firm, and dense surface. Rapid lateral extension growth. |
| Use: | Lawns (residential/commercial/industrial), streetscapes, sports grounds, golf fairways, parkland, and soil stabilisation. |
| Mowing height: | It may be mown with a rotary mower but performs best when a cylinder mower is used. Inclined to form a heavy thatch layer. May scalp if not regularly mowed. |
| Lawn use: | Summer: 10-12 mm; winter: 15-18 mm; golf tees and golf greens 5 mm. |
| Method of propagation: | Vegetative rolls, sprigging of stolons. |
| Preferred soil types: | Best on sandy loams, pH 5.0 to 7.5 preferred. |
| Comments: | Medium maintenance, with only moderate inputs of water, fertiliser and mowing needed for an acceptable surface. Can produce high levels of seed heads under low fertility conditions. Seed head production is low when well-fertilised. Seed heads produce no pollen, making it suitable grass for asthmatics, with repeated multiplication. |
| Heat: | Excellent. The preferred temperature range is 20-35°C. |
| Cold: | Winter colour is poor. Enters an early winter dormancy but holds colour in warmer climates—browns under frosty conditions. |
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