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The Davey Institute of Grounds Management (DIGM) celebrated its 17th year helping to shape the next era of Davey leaders. A weeklong, comprehensive horticulture training program for Commercial Landscape Services (CLS), DIGM is taught to the up-and-coming foremen and project leaders, said Shawn Fitzgerald, technical advisor, who organizes DIGM at the Davey CULTIVATING THE NEXT ERA OF LEADERS Institute in Kent each year. Attendees must be nominated by their supervisors, submit an application and complete extension lessons to attend the training. As Fitzgerald visits the various CLS branches, employees are quite vocal about their interest in attending DIGM because this industry-leading class provides attendees the opportunity to learn the latest Attendees of DIGM 2017 included: Garrett Bates, Richard Bryant, Blake Bushley, Brandon Craft, John Degiorgio, Paul Dolan, Jose Flores, James Francisco, Matt French, Juwon Hughes, David Jacobson, Ronaldo Jones, Torben Larsen, Brenden Lowe, Alyx Mozzochi, Dustin Roberts, Felipe Small, Geoffrey Snelling, Nathaniel Valentin, Monica Wirick and Edward Yambor. industry trends and best practices. Attendees learn safety procedures, proper mulching techniques, pruning techniques, mowing procedures and techniques, tree identification, grass identification, irrigation, insects, diseases and more. "Not a lot of landscape companies do this kind of training, so that is why it is a real bonus for us," Fitzgerald said. 8 The Davey Bulletin | September/October 2017 DIHS SESSIONS TEACH ATTENDEES THE DAVEY WAY Davey Institute of Horticultural Sciences attendees not only received a comprehensive look at various horticultural techniques, but information useful in their daily tasks. The Davey Institute's A.D. Ali, technical advisor, and Chelsi Abbott, technical advisor, facilitated a session NOTES FIELD in Memphis, Tennessee. Technical advisors Chris Fields- Johnson and Greg Mazur joined Richard Rathjens, senior agronomist, Anand Persad, manager, arboriculture and plant sciences, and Roy Montan, regional safety specialist, to teach a session at the Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI) facility. "The sessions inform the attendees on basic principles, whether Plant Health Care related or general horticultural techniques," Abbott said. "It's a refresher to some and introduction to others." The sessions introduce the students to the various disciplines of insects, diseases, soil, fertilization and plant identification, Ali said. The sessions are not just designed for plant health care technicians. At the Memphis session, sales arborists, client experience coor- dinators, an assistant district manager and the district manager attended to brush up. "So, some of the lawn care people could learn about tree diseases and Attendees of the Memphis DIHS, from left to right, are A.D. Ali, Chelsi Abbott, Bill Jurgens, Michael Jurgens, Davy McAdams, Charles Bowes, Troy Allison, Mario Smith, Chris Cherry, Curtis Summlears, Royce Henry, Adrienne Nelson, Derek Bell, Michelle Hicks, Michael McQueeney, Bob Jurgens and Keith Francies.