fINE FESCUE
BEACON II
HARD FESCUE
Leading NTEP scores in Shade, traffic and seedling vigor. Well adapted to lower fertility inputs. Improved disease resistance and drought tolerance.
JETTY
HARD FESCUE
Jetty hard fescue ranks highest in the NTEP for shade tolerance and can withstand lower mowing. Making it an idea choice for golf courses or low maintenance areas. Jetty has a very dark green color and excellent disease resistance.
SEAMIST
SLENDER CREEPING RED
Revolutionary Slender Creeping Red Fescue can germinate in water up to 40% as saline as seawater. Extreme salt tolerance makes SeaMist an ideal choice where effluent water is used to irrigate or exposed to seawater and spray. Excellent seedling vigor. Dense turf, rating #1 in the recent NTEP trials. Great shade and wear tolerance.
CARDINAL II
STRONG CREEPING RED
Top-rated. Has excellent color and maintains its quality when mowed at fairway height as well as under no-mow and shady conditions. Has unparalleled disease resistance, scoring high against Dollar Spot, Red Thread and Summer Patch.
NAVIGATOR III
STRONG CREEPING RED
Navigator III continues its excellence in turf quality and drought stress while improving its traffic stress and shade tolerance. This variety establishes easily; a bonus for slopes and other areas threatened by erosion. With fewer mowings necessary, it also provides both persistent cover and visual appeal to golf roughs, park like areas and residential turf.
RADAR
CHEWINGS FESCUE
A recent advance that has scored excellent marks in overall turf performance under both normal and reduced fertility inputs. Levels of insect and disease resistance are improved together with better density retention under stress. Excellent drought tolerance.
RADAR II
CHEWINGS FESCUE
Radar II is at the top of its class in drought resistance and summer density. It’s no surprise that this variety also ranked highest for establishment and traffic stress. Radar II is widely adapted from the transition zone northward; either as a monostand or mixed with other fine fescues or cool season species to improve shade tolerance.
COMPASS II
CHEWINGS FESCUE
Dark green color and excellent turf density make it a very attractive chewings fescue, ideal for home lawns and parks. It’s shade tolerant and performs well under drought conditions, suited for areas with reduced irrigation. Excellent disease resistance, scoring high in Summer Patch and Red Thread trials.
BLUE HORNET
SHEEP FESCUE
Mountain View Seeds’ first taxonomically
true tetraploid Sheep Fescue (Festuca ovina)! Unique from most other Sheep Fescue cultivars selected from hard fescue color geno-type selections. Contains a double set of chromosomes that allows seed to germinate rapidly, but grow extremely slow under little or no inputs.