If you are looking for a more low-maintenance lawn, you should consider planting blue grama grass. A warm-season, short-growing, perennial grass, blue grama is native to over half the states in ...

Neither grass needs nor likes much fertilizer, either. Blue grama is a full-sun grass, but there are some named varieties of buffalo grass that tolerate shade. So what’s someone in Eagle-Vail to do if ...

Water needs: Once established, water deeply every two weeks. Snapshot: Tired of the same old lawn? Blue grama grass is a California native gaining in popularity for its easy care and drought ...

Blue grama is a warm-season perennial grass native ... temperate climates like that of the eastern United States. As a lawn grass, it is low maintenance, needing little water and only occasional ...

Cover lawn with cardboard and add soil to a depth ... These include warm-season buffalograss and blue grama grass. Less well-known cool-season native species (also worth considering if correct ...

For fuller coverage, consider combining blue grama with buffalo grass and various native wildflowers in your yard. Planting muhly grass is like setting off living fireworks on your lawn.

Alternatives to conventional lawns are all the rage in Colorado drought years, or even typical years. But buffalo and blue grama grass — both warm-season, low-water grasses — don’t have the ...

Tina wrote me this past week, “In 2013, I contacted you about drought-tolerant grasses for our yard, because we were tired of spending effort and money trying to keep our fescue and Kentucky bluegrass ...

Because of the longer season, most Pikes Peak area lawns are cool-season grasses ... are well adapted to our area include buffalo grass and blue grama grass. Zoysia and Bermuda grass require ...

Enter blue grama grass — a native, drought-tolerant option that’s gaining popularity. It can be mowed like a lawn or allowed to grow tall and feathery. Here are some of the benefits of this ...