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March/April 2022
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
GROUNDSKEEPING IN MARGARITAVILLE
Latitude Margaritaville is a 55 and older community in
Daytona Beach, Florida. Commercial Landscape Services,
Margaritaville territory, started caring for the landscape
managing both commercial and residential maintenance
at the property in 2022. CLS has six employees working
on grounds maintenance at the site caring for 140 homes
that are complete, the irrigation system, and the common
spaces, while additional areas of the community are under
construction.
"They have a stage, and Jimmy Buffet comes twice a year
and plays for the residents in the community," said Lincoln
Adams, project manager, Margaritaville.
Left: Last Mango is a stage at
Margaritaville. Jimmy Buffet comes
to Margaritaville to play twice a year.
Below: Edward Jones, landscape
technician, and William Schwieger,
PHC technician, stand in front of a
Latitude Margaritaville sign.
PROJECTED CLIMATE-CHANGE INDUCED
UPDATES TO PLANT HARDINESS ZONES
Which trees and plants will thrive
where in North America over the next
30 to 90 years, and how that might
evolve due to impacts from climate
change, can now be easily determined
thanks to the Davey Institute's
utilization of USDA data.
Experts at the Institute used USDA
data sets to make predictions of
future plant hardiness zones available
in a simple, easy-to-use way through
a newly developed on-line tool.
Visualization of probable changes to
hardiness zones using two climate
modeling scenarios – low and high
carbon emission pathways – can
be explored in 30-year increments
through the end of the century.,
The result is an interactive plant
hardiness zone map available to the
general public at davey.com/climate.
"What we are trying to do is make
those data readily accessible to
anybody, both internally for our
arborists trying to make decisions on
what trees to plant and if those trees
will be viable in the future, and to
the general public," said Scott Maco,
director of ecosystem services.
Anyone can enter a zip code into
the interactive map and determine
how their plant hardiness zone might
change. Such data can help people
make the best determination for
planting trees and other plants to
ensure their longevity in a changing
climate, Maco said. "What we're
trying to do is make hard-to-find,
complicated data accessible to anyone
with a couple clicks of a mouse.
Understanding what the future holds
is good for us and our clients."
Projected updates to U.S. plant
hardiness zones can be found online
at davey.com/climate.
