"Microclover - a nitrogen drip for fairways"
""Microclover tolerates short mowing and seems to be an advantage for amenity purposes", describes the English leading grassinstitute, STRI. Based on experiences abroad, Innoseeds, the Dutch daughter of DLF, informs that this small leaved clover brings a lot of positive properties to fairways." Read more (in flemish).
"Microclover - a revolution in the lawn."
“The presence of white clover in the lawn is in future no longer a nightmare for the garden owner.”
“It allows you to diminish the application of fertilizer considerably and to obtain a lawn practically without weeds.” Read more (in French). Read more (in Flemish)
BBC Gardeners World, April 2006
”Once, adding clover to my lawn would have been unthinkable. However, a new microclover with tiny leaves has made me think again.” Read more.
“As I have mentioned earlier we (i.e. Aalborg municipality) initiated a trial to verify whether white clover in grasses could provide a benefit on sport fields. We made the trial for environmental reasons because we felt sure that we would get a better looking grass cover by an aggressive growth and a longer growth season. We were also convinced that we could save drinking water resources, and reduce the use of fertilizers on the grass…
Our series of trials have been very successful.” Read more (in Danish)
“Trifolium repens Pirouette is the scientific name of micro clovers…
The clover is three times smaller than usual clover which is why it is not noticed in the lawn when looked at but will appear when reviewed.” Read more (in Flemish)
“Tiny clover leaves can help to keep turf green and healthy all year round, researchers in Denmark have found. The fine-leaved Microclovers fix nitrogen in the soil, providing nutrients to the sward and reducing fertilizer requirement... Microclovers can be teamed with a range of grasses, including fine-leaved and dense types of perennial ryegrass and with smooth stalked meadow grasses for continental temperatures or where there is a lot of wear.” Read more.
“Easy Lawn, developed from a commercial mixture successfully launched two years ago, is the first consumer product to contain small-leaved clovers (known as Microclovers) that produce a tough, attractive green sward all year round, even in drought.” Read more.
“…, clover is not something that has been actively encouraged. That is until the advent of tiny leaved clovers known as Microclovers… Grass, aided by its companion, will be healthy and less open so there is less opportunity for weed ingress. Microclover is an aggressive species so it competes well with weeds thus reducing the need for herbicide.” Read more.
“Clover has been a difficult weed in lawns for years… All this is about to change with DLF breeders introducing Microclover into lawn seed mixes sold under names like Ecolawn. Microclover has, as you would expect, tiny leaves and equally importantly, short stems. Mixed with fine-leaved rye grasses, the clover grows around the grass plants and feeds them nitrogen. This mixture is a brighter green early in the year, has good summer colour, is resistant to drought and produces its own nitrogen fertiliser.” Read more.
“For some time, clover has been used on the continent as an alternative to grass…The problem is, clover doesn’t look like grass, and for some people that’s a problem. In response to this, seed company DLF-Perryfields has developed the Ecosward lawn. This contains two types of Microclovers with tiny leaves mixed with grass. The clover grows just under ordinary grass, so from 5 ft away you can’t tell it’s not a normal lawn.” Read more.
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