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Barcrown

The crown of the slender creepers!

  • Excellent shoot density.
  • Outstanding resistance to red thread in all situations.
  • Medium-light green colour with beautiful leaf texture.
  • High salt tolerance.
  • Atlantic climate
  • Nordic climate
  • Continental climate
  • Mediterranean climate
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Barcrown has already been the best slender creeping red fescue for decades. The variety has an excellent shoot density, outstanding red thread resistance and a close mowing tolerance down to 5 mm (4 mm in summer!). This makes Barcrown a very good choice for the overseeding of tees, fairways and greens! The variety maintains a healthy colour, even when temperatures are low. Additional great characteristic is its high tolerance to salt which allows Barcrown to be used in areas with saline irrigation water.

 

Application
Barcrown is a Festuca rubra trichophylla suitable for:

  • golf tees
  • fairways
  • greens
  • surrounds / aprons
  • bowling greens
  • turf production
  • cricket
  • tennis courts

 

Colour
Medium-light coloured variety.

 

Partner varieties in mixtures
Barcrown has been extensively tested in private trials at STRI UK, Bioforsk in Norway and Hohenheim University in Germany and during several small trials in other countries like Denmark, Switzerland and Poland. All trials showed the significant ornamental value of Barcrown and its great performance on golf greens, home lawns and landscaping areas.

Best combinations were found with Festuca rubra spps. such as Barcrown, Bargreen II and Barswing. Other combinations are with Agrostis capillaris Barking and Heriot for greens or with dwarf perennial rye grasses as Bargold, Barlady and Barsignum for fairways, tees or lawns.

 

Additional features

Barcrown

Specifications
Species
Festuca rubra tr
Seeds per gram
1,000
Optimal pH range
5.5 - 6.8
Huminidy
low
Salt tolerance
good
Maintenance required
low
Rhizomes/Stolons/Tufted
rhizomes
Shade tolerance
good
Water requirement
low
Thatch build-up
high
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Speed of establishment
Fineness of leaves
Self recovery capacity
Colour darkness
Green up after winter
Fusarium resistance
Resistance to dollar spot
Resistance to red thread
Less irrigation required
Less nitrogen required
Less frequent mowing possible
Cool temperature germination
Close mowing tolerance
Festuca rubra tricho

Slender creeping red fescue is a high ornamental specie as well. It is as fine and dense as chewings fescue, but it outperforms chewing fescue due to an excellent disease resistance. Slender creeping fescues also exhibit good summer and autumn colour and it has better salt tolerance than chewings fescue.

 

The main difference with chewings fescue is the occurrence of rhizomes which gives the slender creeping fescue a better wear tolerance. Also...

Slender creeping red fescue is a high ornamental specie as well. It is as fine and dense as chewings fescue, but it outperforms chewing fescue due to an excellent disease resistance. Slender creeping fescues also exhibit good summer and autumn colour and it has better salt...

Slender creeping red fescue is a high ornamental specie as well. It is as fine and dense as chewings fescue, but it outperforms chewing fescue due to an excellent disease resistance. Slender creeping fescues also exhibit good summer and autumn colour and it has better salt tolerance than chewings fescue.

 

The main difference with chewings fescue is the occurrence of rhizomes which gives the slender creeping fescue a better wear tolerance. Also here, mowing levels below 5 mm in summer are possible, but only if you use the genetics from Barenbrug. Slender creeping red fescue does not require high inputs of water, nitrogen and pesticides and they are more tolerant to salt than chewings fescues. This specie does produce thatch.

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