What is Buffalo Grass?
Buffalo grass is a highly practical and attractive native grass that is less thirsty than Kentucky Blue Grass. Like Blue Grama grass, it is a warm season grass, greening up in mid- spring and going dormant in late fall. It is very drought tolerant and has soft, comfortable-to-walk on blades, needing only several inches of water per month during hot weather. Buffalo grass is well suited to poor soil at high altitudes, but it also appreciates light soil amendment. It makes a dense turf type lawn and has a thicker growth habit than Grama grass, which is a bunch type grass that tends to have small spaces between each plant. Unlike Blue Grama grass which is best grown from seed, buffalo grass is best planted with plugs. Plugs are the most economical way to go when planting Buffalo grass. Buffalo grass seed is very difficult to germinate evenly, and the sod is very expensive. One of the advantages of native grasses such as buffalo grass is they don’t have to be mowed, but can be if a more ma
