"It has excellent disease resistance. It has good shade tolerance. It has good drought tolerance…all of those things made a lot of sense and we felt that what we had tried in the past didn’t work but we felt strong enough about it after consulting with our board of directors that we all made a conscious decision that this was the best direction for us to go."

"It looks good. It's really kind of maintenance-friendly and you can spray more things on it than Floratam (St. Augustine). The front entrance is my doorway so it's got to look good."