A "velvet-carpet alike" lawn

This topic is made up of two "sub-topics".
The first one: how to manage to obtain a thick grass lawn so that it looks like a velvet carpet.
The second one: what are the conditions that are needed so that a single grass seed takes root ?

To develop the topic, I will tell a story.

Yesterday I drove to Switzerland.
Namely, to Brig.
Brig is a 12,000 inhabitants town in the canton of Valais (South-western Switzerland).
In the nearby mountains, is the Rhone river spring.
"The town intself lies close to Rhone river" (as Wikipedia says).
I follow the Simplon Pass route and after a two hours driving I eventually reach the town.
Brig is just one of many Swiss towns that are rich of:

FLOWERS






LAWNS (in this case, not only mountain lawns but also the lawns of the Castle "Stockalper Palace").



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SOME CLOSE-UPS OF THESE GARDENS LOOK AS FOLLOWS:








Despite of some little weeds here and there, we can see that the outlook is one that looks like a velvet carpet.
THE GRASS IS "THICK".


As opposed to that, here some close-ups of my front-yard lawn:





As we can see, this lawn does not look like a velvet carpet as the Swiss lawn does.
That is due mainly to two reasons.
1. The grass is not as thick as it is in the Swiss lawn.
2. Some grass leaves are yellow.



FROM A DISTANCE OR UNDER SOME ANGLES MY LAWN DOES NOT LOOK SO BADLY.








BUT SURE ENOUGH, IT IS NOT SUCH A CARPET AS THE SWISS LAWN IS.


Why is that ?????
Why my grass is not as thick as the "swiss grass" ???
What should I do ???
Does it depend on the way I seed ???
Does it depend on the amount of seeds per square area ???
Does it depend on the kind of grass ???

Still:
what are the conditions that are needed so that a single grass seed takes root ?

I make such a question becase I sometimes detect that the grass seeds not always take roots.
I mean: I seed, I wait days, days and days but nothing happens.
Those seeds are in the ground but they do not develope into grass...
Why ???



"Ciao" to everybody 0)

 

Ciao Maksim
Lovely photographs of Brig , and not a blade of grass out of place ,how very Swiss !
I will watch this thread with interest as lots of people find it difficult to repair lawns with grass seed . I get very mixed results, so for the majority of my repairs I would fit a small piece of turf. - Now if you want to know how to grow grass on paths and drives I'm your man ! :D

 

As Switzerland has been talking about, I say "Hallo" (not "Hello").
The german greeting.
Hallo Harry .
Yes, I report that, when it comes to regenerate a lawn, many people mention "turf" rather than "seed"...
Indeed, I remember that times ago, when the Milan stadium's lawn ("Giuseppe Meazza" - "San Siro" Stadium) needed some "repairs", then they used to "patch" it with some rectangular turfs.
Having said that, I however suspect that the kind of grass of my lawn ("Festuca Arundinacea") is a quite "rough" one.
So the outlook of my lawn could probably never be one of a velvet alike.
"Festuca" is hot-dry-sunny weather resistant but is also quite "rough".
I suspect that the grass in the photos taken in Switzerland is defenetely NOT Festuca.

Tchüss ! 0) (as they say "good bye" in Switzerland).

 

Lovely Switzerland!

 

These monthes that have gone by since I started this thread, have been - for me - monthes of "meditation" (about the focus of this thread).
Well, over these monthes of "meditation", I have developed the belief that having such a fine "velvet-carpet alike lawn" as the one of the photos is, IS NOT MUCH A MATTER OF "GARDENING PROCEDURES" BUT IT IS RATHER A MATTER OF KIND OF GRASS.
I have a feeling that, to obtain a "velvet-carpet alike lawn", we must choose a COOL SEASON GRASS.
Still, I have a feeling - indeed - that WARM SEASON GRASSES tend to be "rough".
Indeed, I believe that a "rough shape" is something that helps a warm seasons grass to retain water and - as a consequence - to cope with a hot dry weather.
But - unfortunately - that causes that such kind of grass lawns do not exactly look like velvet carpets... (to put it mildly...).
On the contrary, I believe that such cool season grasses as "Bluegrass", "Bentgrass" or "Ryegrass" ("Lollium") could be the "ANSWER" to the issue of this thread.
Eventually, I suspect that the grass of the lawns of the photos taken in Switzerland might be either Bluegrass or Bentgrass or Ryegrass.
Sure enough I do not believe that it is "Festuca Arundinacea" as my grass front-yard is.
Who knows... :cnfs: