Thanks to everyone for their replies. The grass certainly isn't everybody's cup of tea. (My wife is not a big fan.) I really like it. Every one has green grass. I just want my lawn to be different. I also like variegated plants (you can see my variegated dwarf bamboo in the second photo), so when I found out there was a variegated form of St. Augustine, I went searching for it. I finally found a small nursery in San Diego that had about 100 plugs for sale. It spreads agressively like regular St. Augustine.

The problem with beneficial nematodes is that the are very sensitive to chemicals and dry weather. Hope that you have been organic for a while otherwise the nematodes won't work. Keep the lawn as wet as possible while they do their work. Praying Mantis may work also to kill some bugs. I have had two properties with lots of moles. First time I tried to kill them. This time I let them live and once they ate up all the grubs they moved to another spot. They used to be in my front yard. Now they are all in the back yard. Had to add a little grass where the moles tunneled, but they ate more pests than they ruined grass. Don't give up and go back to TruGreen. TruGreen does short-term cures but looking at my neighbors who use TruGreen, the magic of the chemicals doesn't last and they're so bad for you and your neighbors. The TruGreen employees are not well-trained. Today I watched one spray grub and weed killer on my neighbors' lawn with only gloves and no mask or protective clothing. His cotton pants were soaked to the knees with chemicals. This is the guy who tells you his chemicals are safe. Doesn't that tell you something? I've been working on improving the soil on my lawn for years. Natural fertilizer, some lime and my lawn is green and lush as could be. I get complemented on my lawn by all who walk by, but if you get up close, I have lots of weeds, but they are green and when I mow them, they look like lush grass. The weeds and natural grasses are native so the thrive better in the local climate. I think the better lawn care is to improve the soil get as close to native grass as you can, without heavy fertilizer use, but with compost perhaps a little added topsoil each year. TruGreen overfertilizes so the grass roots stay short and when you have dry weather or a drought the grass all dies. Personally, I wish people would worry more about their health than their lawns. My backyard is now half wildflowers and wild grasses which require no care and If I choose to mow them, they would look like a lawn too. Good luck with your lawn, but I hope you can worry about more important things than bugs and dead patches. It isn't the end of the world. Leukemia and lung disease and chemical sensitivity from lawn chemical exposure could be the end of the world.

I couldn't really see it in the first photo but the close up is really cool looking. I've never seen it before. Does it grow like a regular lawn? Karyn

According to the info on "kikyu grass", kikyu looks similar to "St. augustine". The stuff I was asking about is very thin, much thinner than a blade of "St. augustine". That's why I thought it might be bermudagrass. The scan is perhaps misleading because there's no reference in the shot like a penny to gauge the size of the blade. My bad. The scanned plant section is actually about 3 inches top to bottom.