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Barswilcan

Disease tolerant high quality slender creeper

  • Excellent shoot density.
  • Good resistance to fusarium, red thread and dollar spot.
  • Medium-light green colour with beautiful leaf texture.
  • Atlantic climate
  • Nordic climate
  • Continental climate
  • Mediterranean climate
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Viktorka is by far the best variety for use in mixtures for golf greens and ornamental purposes. The variety has a perfect shoot density and a close mowing tolerance down to 5 mm (4 mm in summer!). This makes Viktorka the best choice for the overseeding of tees, fairways and greens! The variety has excellent red thread resistance and maintains a healthy colour, even if nitrogen applications are decreased. Moreover, Viktorka shows a nice green colour all year round!

 

Application
Viktorka is a Festuca rubra trichophylla suitable for:

  • Sport
    • golf courses: tees, greens and fairways
    • cricket and tennis courts
  • Surrounds / aprons
  • Bowling greens
  • Turf production

 

Colour
Medium-light coloured variety.

 

Partner varieties in mixtures
Viktorka 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 Czech Republic. All trials showed the signifi cant ornamental value of Viktorka 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

Viktorka

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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