Empire Zoysia not all its cracked up to be!
We have empire zoysia for a lawn and I call tell you its not all its advertised to be as far as I can see. The lawns with Empire Zoysia in general look shoddy and seem to be getting worst as I look around south of 466. Our lawn and next door neighbors has been replaced in sections once and isn't looking much better after another year. Villages tells us to cut it closer (grass cutting guy says no I'll be sorry). Next Villages tells us not enough water then tells us too much water the tells us fungus and sprays for it - that doesn't fix the problem. They spray it again and that still doesn't fix the problem. Then they redo the drainage that doesn't fix the problem then they send samples to Un of Fl and they have no real recommendation then they replace sections and a year later it looks as bad as it did before they replaced it. They gave up!
So I think the are using Augustine Grass in common areas because it looks better and has less problems.
Moral of the story don't wish for Empire Zoysia.
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