Blue fescue (Festuca glauca) is a beautiful ornamental grass known for its striking silvery-blue foliage. Because of its compact growth and drought-tolerant and low-maintenance na ...

Watering: Following planting, give your blue fescue grasses a slow, deep watering as they establish themselves. Water weekly or every other week during the summer for the first year. Annual mulching ...

Delta Bluegrass makes a mow-free sod mix of three native fescues — Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis), Molate fescue (Festuca rubra) and Western Mokelumne fescue (Festuca occidentalis) — that ...

When shopping for fescue seeds, it good to purchase a seed mix rather than a product that is all the same type of seed. You want to do this because a seed mix will have a better chance of giving ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue ...

Tall fescue is a cool-season, ... “This fungus benefits the plant by warding off herbivores by making them sick, and also helps prevent attack from insects,” said Matt Poore, ...

“Tall fescue is a bunch type grass, meaning a single plant does not spread and make daughter plants from ‘runners’ (a.k.a. stems called rhizomes [underground] or stolons [above ground]),” he said.