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Tall 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.

Tall fescue is the cool-season grass of the transition zone, deep-rooted, heat-tolerant for a cool-season species, and shade-tolerant. Modern turf-type tall fescue (TTTF) cultivars look much finer than the old K-31 pasture grass and dominate new lawn installs from Virginia to Kansas.