Outsidepride Maya Bermudagrass

Maya bermudagrass is what happens when plant breeders stop optimizing for cold tolerance and start optimizing for looks. While Yukon (also from Outsidepride) pushes bermuda's northern boundary into zone 5, Maya stays in its warm-season wheelhouse — zones 7 through 10 — and focuses entirely on producing the finest-textured, most visually striking bermuda lawn you can grow from seed. Formerly sold as Blackjack II, Maya delivers the kind of tight, carpet-like density that makes neighbors ask if you laid sod. The leaf blade is noticeably finer than common bermuda, approaching the quality of vegetative cultivars like Celebration or TifTuf — at a fraction of the cost. At $44.99 for 5 lbs, it's not cheap for bermuda seed, but you're getting genuine cultivar genetics, not a generic 'hulled bermuda' bag from the hardware store. The trade-off: Maya needs full sun (8+ hours), regular mowing at 0.5-1.5 inches to maintain that manicured look, and it will go dormant and brown in winter. But if you're in the right zone and willing to maintain it, Maya produces a lawn that genuinely rivals sodded bermuda at a fraction of the installation cost.