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Fine Fescue care calendar for zone 7

Mild winter, hot humid summer; the classic transition zone where neither cool- nor warm-season grasses are completely happy year-round. Bermuda, zoysia, fine fescue, tall fescue, and Kentucky bluegrass all grow but each has a stress season.

Fine fescue is the umbrella name for creeping red, chewings, hard, and sheep fescues: fine-bladed grasses that thrive in shade and infertile soil where Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue would struggle. It is the go-to choice for the strip under a maple tree or the slope you do not want to irrigate.