Having a lush green lawn is an attractive feature of the home landscape. The grass provides a soothing green color that enhances the quality of your yard and helps improve your property value. However, in some situations growing lawn grasses is challenging, particularly in shaded areas, but several alternatives exist.

Shade can inhibit the ability of grass to grow. Bermudagrass is the most sensitive to shade because it requires six to eight hours of sunlight a day to grow successfully. Tall fescue, zoysiagrass, and St. Augustinegrass can tolerate filtered sunlight, such as under trees. However, they cannot survive in deep shade.

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Timothy Daly is the Agricultural and Natural Resource agent with UGA Extension Henry. He can be contacted at 770-288-8421 or tdaly@uga.edu.

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