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St. Augustine care calendar for zone 8

Warm winter with rare freezes, long hot summer. Warm-season grasses (bermuda, zoysia, centipede, bahia, St. Augustine) dominate; tall fescue persists in shade with irrigation. Lawns go dormant November–March and green up by April. Pre-emergent crabgrass control is the spring priority.

St. Augustine is the dominant lawn grass of the Gulf Coast and Florida, coarse-bladed, lush blue-green, and notably the most shade-tolerant of the warm-season grasses.