Grass for planting in Grasscrete driveway, Los Angeles Area
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Crabgrass Control in Los Angeles
Comments (3)Crabgrass is a summer annual plant in all climates as far as I know. Can you post a picture of the grass you're calling crabgrass. It probably is crabgrass but there are some who refer to other weeds as crabgrass. One problem is that crabgrass thrives under the same conditions that bermuda thrives under - hot weather and mowed short. Then if you water more than once per week, you're guaranteed to get crabgrass. I used to live between Aviation and the 405 in Hawthorne. My lawn was miserable, but I didn't know what I know now about lawns. If I had it to do over again for that location I would put in either Kentucky bluegrass (fine blade) or St Augustine (coarse blade). Either of those should keep the crabgrass out of the lawn without any effort. Here's a friend's house in Huntington Beach... That is KBG. He mows and waters once per week. Fertilizes with used coffee grounds whenever he remembers - about once per year. It never goes dormant that close to the beach. The reason I mention alternatives to what you have is the fact that you have both crabgrass and kikuyu. Those are the most noxious weeds you can get and you have both. Furthermore you have common bermuda. There isn't anything I consider worth saving or even spending any money on. Bermuda is one of the hardest grasses to keep looking really nice. I know St Aug is really easy and I suspect KBG can be really easy in your area. So, are you really going to keep the bermuda? There's going to be a lot of dead bermuda if you really want to clean things up. The hard part about bermuda is keeping it dense enough to fight off weeds. That requires mowing twice weekly at a low setting, watering once weekly, and fertilizing once monthly. If you can't do that then you face a life of weeds and herbicides. Other grasses get mowed much higher (helps fight off weeds), watered weekly (all grasses need water once per week), and fertilized at most 3x per year....See MoreLos Angeles Area native plant nursery...
Comments (13)There are plenty of Salvia growers but you might want to rethink using them for cutflowers. They're not the best for that purpose; they "shatter" quickly. Take a look at some of these: CALIFORNIA NATIVES FOR CUTTING For flowers, foliage and/or berries Arctostaphylos MANZANITA Artemisia californica CALIFORNIA SAGEBRUSH Bloomeria crocea GOLDEN STARS Brodiaea elegans HARVEST BRODIAEA Carpenteria californica ÂElizabeth BUSH ANEMONE Cercis occidentalis, C. o. ÂAlba WESTERN REDBUD Chlorogalum pomeridianum AMOLE, SOAP PLANT Clarkia amoena GODETIA Clarkia unguiculata ELEGANT CLARKIA, FAREWELL-TO-SPRING Collinsia heterophylla CHINESE HOUSES Comarostaphylis diversifolia SUMMER HOLLY Corethrogyne (Lessingia) californica CALIFORNIA ASTER Dichelostemma ida-maia FIRECRACKER FLOWER Dichelostemma pulchellum BLUE DICKS, WILD HYACINTH Dudleya pulverulenta CHALK LETTUCE Epipactis gigantea GIANT STREAM ORCHID Eriogonum arborescens SANTA CRUZ ISLAND BUCKWHEAT Eriogonum giganteum ST. CATHERINEÂS LACE Eriophyllum confertiflorum GOLDEN YARROW Eriophyllum lanatum arachnoideum GOLDEN YARROW Galvezia speciosa ISLAND SNAPDRAGON Hesperocallis undulata DESERT-LILY Hesperoyucca whipplei CHAPARRAL YUCCA Heteromeles arbutifolia TOYON Iris Pacific Coast Hybrids PCH IRIS Isocoma menziesii COAST GOLDENBUSH Juncus balticus BALTIC RUSH Juncus effusus COMMON RUSH Juncus mexicanus MEXICAN RUSH Juncus patens RUSH Juncus xiphioides FLAT-BLADED RUSH Leymus condensatus GIANT WILD RYE Leymus triticoides BEARDLESS WILD RYE Lilium "Corallitos Hybrids" CORALLITOS LILIES Lilium rubescens CHAPARRAL LILY Madia elegans ELEGANT TARWEED Mahonia ÂGolden Abundance G. A. BARBERRY Mahonia ÂSkylark SKYLARK MAHONIA Melica californica CALIFORNIA MELIC Mimulus aurantiacus and Hybrids BUSH MONKEY FLOWER Monardella crispa WAVY-LEAF DUNE MINT Monardella villosa COYOTE MINT Myrica californica PACIFIC WAX MYRTLE Perityle incana GUADALUPE ISLAND ROCK DAISY Philadelphus lewisii californicus CALIFORNIA MOCK ORANGE Polystichum munitum WESTERN SWORD FERN Rhamnus californica COFFEEBERRY Ribes aureum gracillimum GOLDEN CURRANT Ribes sanguineum glutinosum RED-FLOWERING CURRANT Solidago californica CALIFORNIA GOLDENROD Solidago spathulata COAST GOLDENROD Symphoricarpus SNOWBERRIES Trichostema lanatum WOOLY BLUE-CURLS Triteleia hyacinthina WHITE HYACINTH BRODIAEA Triteleia laxa PRETTY FACE, TRIPLET LILY Vaccinium ovatum EVERGREEN HUCKLEBERRY Wyethia angustifolia NARROW-LEAF MULE EARS Zigadenus fremontii STAR-LILY Joe...See MoreBest grass for Los Angeles?
Comments (91)Adrienne in Thousand Oaks: Regarding UC Verde Buffalo Grass, we installed it June 2021 so can attest to how it took watering twice a day to establish, then less frequently until we were watering twice a week with good results; I live in Thousand Oaks and were restricted to watering once a week for 15 minutes which was a good soak and it survived the limited watering last summer. When first planted as plugs we had a lot of weeds but it eventually filled in and is very thick. What we don't like is that is it dormant and brown in color from November to March; it has been slowly turning green in the last few weeks now that it is spring. It requires very little mowing, about once a month at most from spring to fall. The only way to buy it in Southern California is from FloraSource Ltd. They ship it as plugs in flats so it is labor intensive to have it installed; cost is twice that of sod....See MoreWhen to plant zoysia grass in Los Angeles
Comments (4)Its too late for seed- as Zoysia is slow to establish, and is better planted at the beginning of summer. You can plug, but you will not get full coverage until next summer. If you want full turf coverage for fall and winter- plant annual rye grass, and plug zoysia in the spring. Spray the rye with 'Round up' or 'Image' before you plug. The rye becomes quite ugly in the spring ! :-)...See MoreNil13 usda:10a sunset:21 LA,CA (Mount Wash.)
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