Getting the pitch right with INTURF
World class golf courses and golf course architects turn to Inturf when they need the turf or the know-how to turn their ideas into reality.
Whether it’s a new build course or the restoration or relocation of selected fairways, bunkers or greens, you can benefit from the same expertise and experience.
But it isn’t only in golf that we excel. Leading football and rugby clubs and some of the best known landscape architects in the UK specify Inturf for all kinds of situations. In fact, there probably isn’t a turfing problem that we haven’t encountered – and solved!
Here are some of our recent Golf Course, Football Stadium and Amenity turf projects around Europe:
Job done at Chesfield Downs Golf & Country Club
We've just completed the installation of 55,000 square metres of turf at the Chesfield Downs Golf and Country Club in Hertfordshire.
Chesfield Downs is part of Crown Golf, Europe's largest golf operator with 32 golf and leisure facilities in the UK, with whom we have an ongoing contract to supply turf.
But still a long way to go at The Wisley!
The Chesfield Downs project took around four weeks from start to finish - rather faster than the ongoing work at The Wisley in Surrey where the members have decided to renovate all 27 holes over a three year period, a project for which we are supplying custom grown turf.
The creeping bent is extremely vigorous and can thus be cut regularly to be always at its best. The sandy rootzone exactly matches the material used to construct tees and greens and is thus immediately at home once the turf is laid.
It's not just about golf!
As can be seen from the picture below, The Wisley is one of the most attractive courses in the home counties so there is a great deal to live up to.
To find out more about this and other golf projects, contact Alex Edwards to set the ball rolling.
It's been a good year for supplying golf courses, but then we mustn't forget that our turf is specified at sporting venues like Manchester United and Twickenham; in amenity settings like the Tate Modern, The Oxo Building, The Alnwick Garden and, of course, in public and private open spaces the length and breadth of the UK.
Fibre reinforced turf
The new legislation about permeable surfaces in front gardens makes good practice a legal requirement. Instead of reaching for porous blocks or paving stones, why not think about fibre reinforced turf (FRT) as - quite literally - a greener solution?
Fibre reinforced turf is grown in a sand dominant rootzone and is reinforced with polypropylene fibres so that the turf can be driven on without ruts forming. It looks and feels (and drains!) like ordinary turf because it is ordinary turf - but with extra load bearing capacity.
Fibre reinforced turf is ideal not only where hard standing is needed but provides an altogether better solution aesthetically and environmentally for access roads for emergency services.
A powerful variant of FRT is formed by laying Rhizomatous Tall Fescue on top of a reinforced rootzone. This has very deep roots and is incredibly resistant to wear, shade, drought and flood - even without reinforcement.
Contact Alex Edwards to find out more.
When is a lawn not a lawn?
When it's a roof, like the lawn on the right!
When it's a roof, like the lawn on the right!
These pictures, at a large private home in North London, show the use of turf in forms both ancient and modern. The green patch in the picture on the top left contrasts perfectly with the formal structure created by the lavender beds held in by clipped box, whilst at bottom left the expanse of lawn, standard trees and clipped Yew create a country house feel.
The lawn on the right however is in fact the roof of a modern building erected to provide indoor leisure facilities. Because the main house itself is extremely traditional in appearance it was decided that the new building should not be visible from the old. Incidentally, this picture was taken just four weeks after the turf was laid.
Is this our best year ever for turf quality?
As well as having over 200,000 square metres of the most fantastic fine turf, our general production turf is, we believe, the best we've ever produced. This has been brought about by a combination of the weather and a much more rigorous and focussed production regime.
If you think we're talking it up you should come and see the quality for yourself: we don't think we've ever produced better material.
Contact Alex Edwards to find out more.