Does it get cold enough in your area that the bulbs will have a cool and long enough chill season in the ground? Will they be planted in an area where the foliage can be left in place for 6 weeks after they have finished blooming...ie not mowed? If the foliage is removed/mowed too soon, the bulbs will not bloom the following season. Sue

I think you had too short a history, and too many outside influences, to say 'Only the fescue will survive my heat, my light, my shade, my watering practices, and my neighborhood influences (kids and dogs, or whatever). You said the shady mix took rather well: that process seems to have been interrupted. I'd start over. Go get a box of the same stuff, and plant it again. But this time, I assume, the grass will be fairly well left alone, to thrive or not thrive, based on light, watering, mowing, and the rest of what would be called 'cultural practices'. So start over: throw a bit of new stuff into the mix if you care to. But you're still at step one, it seems a little unfair to a given cultivar to say 'it didn't survive a couple months under the tarps, the piles, and the carpenters stomping around'. You have established, very well, that that mix is no good as a skidway. You haven't yet established that that mix is no good as a lawn.

CRF is somewhat tolerant of poor infertile soils but it does require soil. The roots won't grow through granite or rock. Your method of watering twice a day for brief periods has trained the grass to be intolerant of dry spells. That is why people suggest deep and infrequent watering. Give it an inch a week taking into consideration rainfall but do it once or twice a week. Then again if the roots only go down a couple of inches on account of rock, debris or compacted soil being there it may have died long ago without that frequent watering.

Actually I just found an article where they tested Fine Fescues on a Palo Alto golf course (Z9) in full sun. They stated that all remained green with irrigation. http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8391.pdf My PH tested to slightly alkaline so I'll try lowering it a bit. My watering schedule was based on KBG also (about 3" per week) so I have reduced that also. Finally, I noticed that Lustrous did not do too well on the turf trials for mowed quality - just goes to show that you have to do your research if you are going for an above average lawn.