3 specially selected cultivar mixes to fulfill most landscaped infrastructure construction requirements
– 60 % perennial ryegrass (comprising 2 cultivars)
– 25% strong creeping red fescue
– 10% hard fescue
– 5% brown top bent
APPLICATION & MANAGEMENT
– Sowing rate 25-40 g/m²
– Superb CO2 sequestration capability with low carbon emissions (low maintenance) makes this sward mixture a perfect complement to low carbon sustainable development projects.
Amenity grassland mix also suitably deployed on winter sports pitches.
– 30% tetraploid perennial ryegrass
– 30% perennial ryegrass
– 20% creeping perennial ryegrass (stoloniferous)
– 20% strong creeping red fescue
APPLICATION & MANAGEMENT
– Sowing rate: 30-40 g/m²
– Mowing height (will tolerate down to 12 mm).
This cultivar mix demonstrated exceptional drought tolerance during the 2019 ‘heatwave’.
Established swards significantly out-performed traditional permanent managed grassland areas and recovery (following prolonged drought) was significantly accelerated.
Verges, roundabouts, embankments and slope stabilisation applications.
– 25% perennial ryegrass ‘R450’
– 42.5 strong creeping red fescue
– 25% hard fescue
– 5% brown top bent
– 2.5% micro-clover
APPLICATION & MANAGEMENT
– Sowing rate: 25-40 g/m²
– Minimal mowing regimes (once annual, ‘spring cut’ annual sward growth).
This drought resilient sward will tolerate mowing down to 25 mm height.
This cultivar mix maintains road/rail green verges with exceptional CO2 sequestration capabilities, atmospheric particulate “scrubbing” rainwater entrapment/infiltration and (by virtue of the Micro clover) is “self-nourishing” in nitrogen requirements through the nitrogen fixing bacteria associated with Micro clover.
Before the current trend & focus on sustainability, our international team of experts have devoted years to pioneering the very best & most efficient environmental grass cultivars.
Beyond the sustainability benefits we understand the corporate, Governmental & private need for efficiency, working on products that are proven to deliver both cost & time savings.
We work alongside DLF, the respected world leaders in grass science who have over 200 staff (>11% of their 2000 employees) dedicated to researching the very best seed & science combinations.
The result of over 20 years intense R&D by DLF, the world’s leading seed breeder, has enabled these unique & innovative Eire Seed cultivars. They represent a paradigm shift in the performance of amenity grass mixtures with the combined benefits of saving time, money & the environment.
“Money is saved because the new verges require less cutting and produce less risings, which means less wear on our mowing machines, less manpower, a reduction on blocked gulleys & the costs associated with clearing up.
More than 95% of the grass needs only 3 or 4 cuts a year as opposed to 7 or 8 previously. We live in an era of ever decreasing budgets so the number of times you can cut the highways is reducing.
By looking at specific cultivars and putting some of the new low maintenance grasses in a place you can not only reduce the number of cuts but also maintain a far better visual effect.
Basically you have to invest short-term to save long-term.”
"As part of the Citywest drive for sustainability we are using & monitoring levels of carbon sequestration with a select Carbon Grass mixture provided by Eire Seeds.
We have successfully used a low maintenance, high carbon sequestration mixture which consists of 40% Perennial Ryegrass, 20% Strong Creeping Red Fescue, 20% Chewings Fescue & 20% slender creeping red fescue.
I am very impressed with the speed of germination, cover & color and the significant reduction in the number of cuts required per annum.
We are saving significantly on our grounds maintenance costs with only 4 cuts last year."
"Introducing slow-growing, low-maintenance 'carbon grasses' to open public spaces would significantly improve the nation's quest for carbon credits & dramatically reduce grass-cutting costs.
These Carbon Grasses are the future!"
We’re delighted to announce that on Tuesday 16th November, as part of the Futurescape event at ExCel London, our unique carbon grasses were part of the project which won the 2021 Pro Landscaper ‘Small Project, Read more…
A short video from DLF illustrating the importance of deep roots & how the findings are scientifically verified by RadiMax.
Climate Change poses an existential threat to humanity. Soil Carbon Sequestration is widely being recognised as part of the solution to this problem.