Olympic Quality: Zeon Zoysia

Next generation fine-textured Zoysia

Drought resilient

Dense, plush growth

Slower growth = less mowing than Bermuda

Full sun or bright shade

Sun or Shade? Both. 🌤

Thriving in full sun, Zeon also has some shade tolerance

As a Zoysiagrass, Zeon naturally thrives in full-on, all-day long, baking hot sun. However, it offers some shade tolerance, as long as it gets at least 4 to 5 hours of full sun. We have articles to help you determine if your yard is too shady for grass and we offer tips on how to make it a little more sunny, if necessary.

Learn if your yard is too shady for grass

Zeon Zoysia is a Warm-Season Lawn

The term "warm season" means it's green during the warm growing season; going dormant after frost. Even though it's dormant during winter, it can still be walked and played on.

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Zeon's Olympic Quality Explained

The best performing fine-textured Zoysia

Zeon Zoysia sod is so adaptable that it thrives in the heat of the lower South and cold winters of the upper South. It boasts a higher shade tolerance and disease and insect resistance than other thin-bladed Zoysias. It's soft and plush, yet easier to mow than other fine-textured Zoysias because it doesn't require a reel mower. Plus, it was literally in the Olympics! It was chosen as the official golf course grass of the 2016 games in Rio, Brazil.

Love fine-textured Zoysiagrass, but hate the upkeep? Choose Zeon.

Medium green color
Thin leaf blade (fine textured)
Likes an acidic pH (low pH) - depending on results of your soil test, there may be no need to raise the pH with lime
Slowing growing - needs less mowing than Tall Fescue & Bermuda
Mow with a reel, rotary, or robotic lawn mower
Drought resistant; it goes dormant in extended drought, greening up again when rain returns

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Love fine-textured Zoysiagrass, but hate the upkeep? Choose Zeon.

Where to Use Zeon, the Bare Foot Grass

Use anywhere that a dependable, luxurious lawn is desired. Thick and comfortable like all Zoysia lawns, as if there’s padding underneath, this fine-bladed Zoysia also feels soft to bare feet (other fine-bladed zoysia can feel slightly prickly to bare skin).

Residential lawns & commercial landscapes
Condos, resorts, and hotels
Public & private parks
Sports fields and golf courses on fairways, tees, and roughs
It's tolerant of salt water spray so can be planted near the ocean
Zones 5b to 11a on the 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map or Zones 1-4 on the Turfgrass Hardiness Map

Zeon's Other Assets

Full sun; tolerant of partial shade or some bright filtered shade (pine shade or high shade)
After Elite Tall Fescue, Zeon is our second most shade tolerant turfgrass
Weed resistant due to Zeon's dense turf that crowds out weeds and other grasses
Mow with a reel, rotary, or robotic lawn mower
Requires less fertilization than other lawns, especially compared to Bermudagrasses
Zeon stripes pretty well, as seen in pictures herein

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