Product Details
Green Velvet RHS RootGrow Lawn Seed is a specially formulated grass seed mixture containing perennial ryegrasses for low maintenance and harder wearing lawns, with RootGrow mycorrhizal fungi for improved nutrient and water uptake, aiding establishment and providing long term resistance.
GREEN VELVET® rootgrow lawn seed is suitable to create new lawns, overseeding or repairing worn patches.
The Special blend of perennial ryegrass and strong creeping red fescue have been selected for fast establishment, natural vitality and toughness to produce a hard wearing lawn that is beautiful to look at and able to cope with everyday family use.
GREEN VELVET® rootgrow lawn seed is produced by Barenbrug UK who have been breeding grass seed varieties for every possible application for over 100 years. This experience and specialist knowledge means that when you buy GREEN VELVET® grass seed mixtures you are buying the very best. The premium lawn seed, when blended with rootgrow UK origin mycorrhizal fungi provides all the ingredients needed for excellent results every time. When you sow your lawn seed you can have peace-of-mind that your garden lawn will look great all year-round.
Established lawns have an extensive network of beneficial fungi and bacteria breaking down and transporting soil nutrients to the root system. The mycorrhizal fungi in rootgrow will spread rapidly through the new grass roots to provide sustained benefits throughout the lifetime of your lawn.
Sow from March to September. Store in cool, dry place, resealing the pouch if unused.
This special blend of perennial ryegrass and strong creeping red fescue have been selected for fast establishment, natural vitality and toughness to produce a hard wearing lawn that is beautiful to look at and able to cope with everyday family use
Strong rhizome production for recovery and good shade and drought tolerance
Fast establishing, hardwearing lawn with attractive appearance and good all year round colour and disease tolerance
Rapid germination and establishment
Resistance to foot traffic
Resistance to muddying
Improved resistance to lawn disease
Attractive
Use for activities like football or BBQs
Ideal for kids or dogs to play on
Sowing rate for new lawn 35g per m2, oversowing rate for repairing worn lawn 25g per m2
Grass mix:
30% Bardorado perennial ryegrass, 30% Fandango perennial ryegrass, 40% Barustic strong creeping red fescue.
You may wonder why different cultivars of the same species are used. These cultivars naturally possess significant differences which may include germination and establishment capabilities at varying soil temperatures, recovery and disease tolerance. The mixtures offer the best way of ensuring a good establishment & turf for particular conditions throughout the year.
Barenbrug is a well renown international seed company with large UK seed production which is produced to the Higher Voluntary Standard to ensure that quality is at the foremost. To compliment this Barenbrug carry out extensive research to assess and evaluate the different species.