So far, the 2020s have been banner years for the landscape industry. However, the upcoming presidential election, talk of a potential recession, climate change and other factors are all impacting client demand and trends.

Landscape professionals across the country share what they are seeing when it comes to these elements influencing consumers and what they see happening in 2024.

Photo: Chip-N-Dale’s Custom Landscaping, Inc.

When the California Air Resource Board (CARB) proposed banning the sale of virtually all carbon-emitting landscape equipment starting in 2024, this legislation simply accelerated Cagwin & Dorward’s plans to transition to electric equipment.

The Petaluma, California-based company sees electric and robotic equipment as the future of the industry and has been planning for this shift for a long time.

“We’ve been slowly converting our smaller equipment over to electric,” says Andy Hawley, regional branch manager for Cagwin & Dorward. “Any time we have some old equipment that we need to replace, we replace it with some portion of still two-cycle and also electrical equipment. It’s been more of a phased approach to replacing older equipment.”

Photo: Cagwin & Dorward