Texas Tech Grass Options

[impala454]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/garden...es/5880740.html

nice to see a little Texas Tech props down here in Houston

A Texas Tech University plant and soil science professor and a Lubbock nurseryman are about to cast a big shadow over Texas urban landscaping.

Rockwell Professor of Plant and Soil Science Dick Auld and his research team have scientifically characterized a new variety of hardy, drought-tolerant turfgrass that grows well under the shade of trees. The patent-pending grass variety will commercially be known as Shadow Turf, but technically it's a specially selected variety of Zoysiagrass that was discovered by Ivey.

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Last year Texas Tech's Office of the Vice President for Research presented Auld with a $40,000 grant to promote and commercialize the new grass variety. As part of a commercial agreement with Ivey, Texas Tech receives a portion of the royalties from sale of the grass.

[jwttu]

heres the website for the grass.

their main grass is a buffalo grass that is adapted for turf, it uses alot less water and needs less mowing. Potentially changing over to this grass could help with water shortages and pollution