Landscape Services

What We Do

Mizzou’s picturesque campus has long been one of its trademarks. A certified botanic garden and arboretum, Mizzou’s 1,252 acres host 45,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors daily. With close to 6,000 trees and 200-plus plant varieties planting and maintenance are a year-round endeavor.

Tending to Mizzou’s picturesque campus is Mizzou’s Landscape Services — planting, trimming, weeding, snowplowing, hauling and tidying — a small but mighty team of specialists behind and in front of the scenes. It’s a responsibility the staff of Landscape Services and Mizzou Botanic Garden take great pride in.

What We Do

MU Landscape Services Receives National Honor

MU Landscape Services has received the Grand Award in the 2025 Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) Green Star Awards®, a national recognition for excellence in groundskeeping and landscape management.

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Landscape Services team with the PGMS award

Mizzou Botanic Garden

When you think of a registered botanic garden, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s the Missouri Botanic Garden in St. Louis or the Smithsonian Gardens in Washington, D.C. What you might not know, however, is that there’s a botanic garden right beneath your feet. The Mizzou campus was established as a certified botanic garden in 1999.

Mizzou Botanic Garden
Flower garden on the Francis Quadrangle

Landscape Projects

Landscape Services staff work year-round to keep the Mizzou campus beautified and unified. Check out some of the recent landscape projects around campus.

Landscape Projects
Landscape Services planting flowers

Additional Resources

Events

Events Request a Garden Tour

Landscape Information

Frequently Asked Questions Landscape Services Responsibilities

Contact

Joe Kovolyan, Director, Landscape Services
Phone: (573) 882-4240
Email: j.kovolyan@missouri.edu

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