[Mrs. Robinson]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

The villages put in Zoyzia sod in our yard. It cannot be removed from bushes, and it grows under things such as deeply embedded walls and it finds your foundation plantings covered with rocks. . You cannot remove it unless you get down on your hands and knees and follow it back to it's roots which are several miles from where you are kneeling on a bed of fire ants.

Originally Posted by Meboko

We're in Phillips Villas, too, and I'm pretty sure we were told its zoysia.
Seems to really like water - its at its greenest right alongside the AC drip line.

The word is Zoysia; there is no "z" in Zoysia and it absolutely can be removed from bushes.
If Zoysia is trimmed and edged, the chances are nil of having a problem with it travelling into plant beds or most certainly under deeply embedded walls.
There are other weeds that could do this such as torpedo grass, etc., however.

I have had many of the Florida grasses over the years, Seville, Floratam, Centipede, Bahia and the ever popular Zoysia, which I hate.

I have never found that Zoysia requires much less water than any of the St. Augustine types, although I have never tested how many days it would take for each variety to die, when going X amount of days without water.
I have only read that Zoysia requires less water but have never seen any test results.

I'm sure I could be proven wrong, but in my mind, it's bunk.
Give me St. Augustine any day!
As long as I'm alive, I want to see the green side up all year long.