Landscaping in Missouri is clay, humidity, and storms that edit trees in an afternoon. Western hail shreds a planting. Eastern river rain washes a bed down a slope and piles water at a foundation. Ozark shade and rocky ground are not a Bootheel lawn. Freeze still heaves walks in the north. The call is drainage, limbs, and plants that the weather already judged, not a show bed from a dry week.
Downspouts that end at the footing fill basements and wet crawl spaces. Keep soil sloping away even on a lot that looks flat. A swale beats a pipe that moves the puddle to the neighbor. Say if their grade already sends water to you. Limbs on the roof or over a bedroom come first. Hail-split crotches fail later in ordinary wind. A hanging limb is not a fall cleanup idea.
Turf fungi love a crowded, humid lawn. A hot week scorches new plants with no water plan. Mulch on the trunk rots bark. Choose for clay, shade, or open wind, whichever you actually have. Deer edit the Ozark edge. Salt and plows still kill a northern drive edge. A windbreak or a shade tree on the wrong side will fight the house. Say what the last storm did to the canopy.
Irrigation has to be blown out where winters freeze, or the yard work becomes a broken line. Edging decides whether the place stays keepable. If you are only planning, say so. If water is at the foundation or a tree is on the building, say that louder. Stone that has heaved is a trip. Do not plant the splash zone and then wonder why the crown rots.
Lead with drainage, a damaged tree, or a walk you cannot trust. Name the part of the state so the plants match the weather. Call the number on this page.