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Green Carpet
The Coolabah Turf team rolled out the "green carpet" to showcase Village Green to council and commercial customers at a VIP Product Launch function onboard the historic PS Canberra on the Murray River in Echuca last month.
The primary theme of the day was to educate influencers and decision makers who spec, supply and install turf landscape solutions about how to regenerate community green space devastated by more than a decade of drought.
"With the easing of lawn watering bans in most regions around the state, our council and commercial landscape customers are now reassessing their changing landscape needs and specifications that will dictate future policy. As part of this process they are exploring ideas for what turf varieties to use and what practical and cost effective methods of installation are available to help achieve their goals," Coolabah Turf owner, Brad Shearer said.
"Our ability to now offer customers Village Green as a superior performing winter active Kikuyu alternative to traditional, common Kikuyu varieties had received an overwhelming response from the market place," he said.
Bendigo Shire Parks Supervisor, Orrin Hogan, said his team was impressed with recent Village Green trial results undertaken in their shire, seeking a sustainable, environmentally friendly drought tolerant turf option to help them transition community parks and gardens back from the depths of many years of drought.
"We are particularly impressed by the greater density and fine leaf structure of Village Green, which makes it look more glamorous like a couch variety, but without the prolonged dormancy issues of severe discolouration and weed invasion traditionally encountered with couch and other common Kikuyu varieties at this time of year," Orrin said.
"The fact that we can now establish a warm season turfgrass all year round is also an appealing aspect of Village Green for our parks team. This extended window of establishment opportunity basically means we can schedule some of our larger turf installation projects when our crews are not as busy with the usual demanding levels of summer maintenance needs," Orrin said.
Speaking to his group of green industry peers at the launch function, Murray Shire Parks and Gardens Supervisor, Luke Keogh said he was pleased there was now an alternative drought tolerant turf option for land developers completing subdivision projects during cooler winter periods of the year.
"Limited turf choices during these cooler months of the year in the past often meant that cool season seeded turf varieties were used just to honour short term contractual obligations to get sign off," Luke said.
"History tells us the down side of this mindset means that council, who ultimately inherit that green space, end up having to foot the bill to replace the landscape because those varieties are not sustainable long term in our harsh summer climate," he said.
Luke said despite the recent increase in the region’s water storages, it was critical the broader community and landscape industry groups continued with a united message to spec appropriate turf varieties to protect our communities’ investments in green space and to prevent future cycles of lawn watering bans which we had all endured over the last 8-10 years.
In closing, Brad Shearer said Coolabah Turf was proud of its reputation as proactive turf producers specialising in the exclusive supply of water efficient turfgrass varieties for the future.
"We want people to ensure their landscape contributions to our community leave a lasting legacy. The nature of Village Green’s aggressive growth habit will ensure it stands that test of time in our open space environments, without the need for irresponsible amounts of watering and maintenance," he said.