Plant Zoysia plugs. It turns brown as wheat in the cold months, but nothing can kill or invade a lawn of zoysia- not weeds, sleet, snow, hail, nor a flock of pigeons or the neighbor's dog chasing the mailman.

If you have a drought one summer and walk past all the homes with grey, choking lawns, you will see one emerald green lawn on the block- and that will be Zoysia.