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I Love Turf supplies quality lawn care products to keep your lawn healthy and in a beautiful condition, all throughout the year. As one of the leading providers of turf and related services for Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and greater South East Queensland, we have an excellent selection of premium-quality products for you to select from and our lawn care experts are always on hand to provide you with informed advice and help you understand which of the products we supply best suits your specific requirements.

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Choosing The Right Turf

Choosing The Right Turf For Your Situation In Australia

Lawn Care
Choosing the right turf for your situation depends on a number of factors including, shade, frost, available water, desired maintenance, wear, salt, aesthetics, where you live and cost. This video will make choosing the right lawn for your situation far more easy. Whether its soft leaf Buffalo grass, Kikuyu Turf, Couch lawn, or Zoysia, the…
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fertilising your lawn

Watering and Fertilising Lawns

Lawn Care
This advice is for warm season turf types like Couch, Kikuyu, Buffalo and Zoysia lawns. It is not suitable for cool climate lawns such as Fescue, Rye Grass, and Blue Grass. In most parts of Australia it is important to water really deeply and less frequently. It is only in places like Perth with its…
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Mowing
lawn mowing tips

Lawn Mowing Tips

Mowing
There is a lot more to mowing your lawn than just pushing your mower. You need to get the height right in sun and shade, as well as removing just the right amount of leaf. Mowing in wet weather is easier if you know how, and learn how to de-thatch your grass with a lawn…
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Weeds
Weed Control Fact

Weed Control Fact Sheet

Weeds
The best two ways to prevent weeds is to mow regularly and choose a lawn like Buffalo or Zoysia that competes well with weeds. Broad leaf weeds have broad generally flat leaves and can be sprayed out of your lawn with chemicals such as Bromoximal MCPA, often sold under the brand Bindii Killer. If you…
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Disease and Pests
lawn grub

Lawn Grub Information Sheet

Disease & Pests
Army Worm: Lawn Armyworm (Spodoptera maurita) are a major pest during summer and autumn, causing severe damage to turf grass surfaces where they attack leaves, stems and seed heads. Infestations in turf gradually extend outwards from gardens or higher cut turf areas as these plants are used as egg laying sites. Severe damage is predominantly…
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Lawn Grub And Disease Control

Lawn Grub And Disease Control

Disease & Pests
The first step to solving your lawn grub and disease problem is proper identification. After that there are many ways to control and prevent them to make your lawn stronger so it can better handle these problems. From Army Worm to Fungus Disease, this Video will help you…
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Nara

Breeding Nara™ Native Turf

Zoysia Nara
Breeding Nara™ native turf is the most important breeding work I have ever done. The breeder: Todd Layt. I have bred many forms of turf, such as Sapphire® Buffalo, Kenda® Kikuyu and Stadium® Couch, but I feel the most important breeding work I have ever done is to develop Nara™ Native Turf. For over 18…
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Nara™ Native Turf Salt Tolerance

Zoysia Nara
Nara™ native turf is a low maintenance grass that is naturally very drought tolerant. It is generally a coastal grass but has been proven to work well many hundreds of kilometres inland. Common Zoysia macrantha is very salt tolerant, so it is no surprise that Nara™ turf has this quality as well, although it is better watered…
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Nara™ Native Turf – Better Than Blue Couch

Zoysia Nara
Couch has long been a highly popular fine leafed grass. It is certainly very hardy, and has earned its place in the Australian psyche but as our lifestyles change and plant breeding offers us more choices of lawn turfs, couch may not always stack up as the best grass choice. Queensland Blue Couch has been…
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Nara – A New Variety of Zoysia Grass

Zoysia Nara
Nara – The True Australian Lawn Nara Native Turf is a new variety of Zoysia grass which has been bred in Australia. While most Zoysia lawn types are not originally native Australian grass varieties, the Nara strain has been developed here, and as such is often referred to as Native Nara Turf. Nara is a very…
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Zoysia Lawn Considerations

Zoysia Nara
Who Shouldn’t Choose A Zoysia Lawn We understand that Zoysia will not be the best lawn for everybody. There are many considerations which homeowners need to consider before choosing their next lawn, and whether Zoysia will or will not be that lawn type will become apparent during each person’s own research. First will be the…
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Characteristics of Zoysia Grass

Zoysia Nara
It may be an unusual lawn name, and in fact the name has been changed many times over the years. Known in past years by names such as Manilla Grass and Temple Grass, and other names – which all seem to sound like ornamental names, rather than names for home lawns. Today, Zoysia is taking…
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The Different Types of Zoysia Grass

Zoysia Nara
Different Types Of Zoysia Grasses There are several different varieties within the Zoysia grass family, and each can have different strengths, weaknesses, suitability of climate and appearances. This article takes an general look into the most common Zoysia types used as lawns in Australia.   Zoysia Matrella The Zoysia matrella family is most suitable for…
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Why We Believe Zoysia Is The Best Lawn For Australia

Zoysia Nara
The Lawn Guide is putting a new focus onto Zoysia grass as the best lawn type for use in all the warmer regions of Australia. Here are all the reasons why we believe Zoysia should become the future dominant grass type in Australia. We also recognise that Zoysia will not be the preferred lawn for…
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Zoysia For Roadsides and Median Strips

Zoysia Nara
Zoysia – The Great Choice For Low & Medium Use Government Areas This Zoysia article is directed once again at government, and specifically at the good people responsible for managing our roads and their accompanying nature strips, median strips, verges, roundabouts and every other area where they are responsible for planting and maintaining lawns and…
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Converting Council Parks To Using Zoysia

Zoysia Nara
Time To Switch Our Parks To Zoysia We’re going to take a look at a typical Council park in suburban Australia. The park is planted with common Kikuyu, it has some shaded areas from some beautiful trees in the park, as well as a nice kids playground area. The park receives only minimal usage. So…
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Buffalo

Dark green all year round. Quicker grow in.

Buffalo
When buying a lawn, most people want the darkest green lawn available. Prestige® turf delivers exactly that— the darkest green of any Buffalo. • It was bred from the popular Palmetto® Buffalo, retaining the benefits of excellent cold and drought tolerance and outstanding winter colour. • Unlike Palmetto® turf, Prestige® Buffalo has 20% faster growth,…
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