Recommended eastern lawn care providers:
Carolina's Lawn Pros
Georgia
Mississippi
Virginia
Recommended eastern lawn care providers:
Carolina's Lawn Pros
Georgia
Mississippi
Virginia
Southeastern states are made up of Warm Season grasses. These grasses were developed to withstand the prolonged stresses created by summer heat and humidity. Water is usually not a problem, but during some years, droughts can drastically effect the health of the lawn.
Warm-season grasses are tropical in origin and thrive during the scorching summer heat typically seen in the southern states. They are not green during the cold spells of winter. Their leaves turn brown in late fall and don't green up again until warm weather returns. In general they are green a little over half the year.
Warm-season grasses are best suited for lower and middle South regions which includes the Coastal areas from Virginia south. Zoysia grass and more cold-tolerant grasses such as Bermuda can be grown in the upper South which includes the mountainous regions.