Award-winning residential & commercial landscaping in Lee’s Summit, Parkville, MO, Basehor, Olathe, KS

About Hermes
Landscaping

Dalton Hermes, CEO - top quality landscaping & landscape design in Lee’s Summit, MO

SHARED CORE BELIEFS

Why We Work

“Our mission states that our purpose is to ‘make our world more beautiful.’ This is, in fact, one of the intangible benefits of our business, and we derive a sense of purpose when we are able to make our community more beautiful through landscape.”

— Dalton Hermes, CEO

Contact Us

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

— MARTIN LUTHER KING

Story Timeline

We are proud of our story and how we came to be. Our founder John T. Hermes was a man with a dream. He’s a man with a keen business mind and an agrarian soul. John attended Oklahoma State University and earned a degree in Agriculture with an emphasis in Animal Science. After 10 years in agriculture chemical sales and the military he knew he was built for a bigger and more fulfilling path. In 1965 with a wife and five little mouths to feed, and the right amount of moxie, Country Fair Lawns started its humble beginning in a barn which evolved into what we all know today as Hermes Landscaping. John’s disposition is not only warm and kind, but he’s a great businessman. You either want to work for him or with him.

Hermes Landscaping legacy - landscaping in Basehor, KS

A FAMILY BUSINESS

Harvesting Legacy

John recruited his oldest son Dalton to join the company in 1986 and was later purchased by Dalton in 1998. Today, the company is owned and operated by Dalton Hermes and going strong for over 50 years. Dalton continues to lead the company with the same enthusiasm and passion that he had for the business when, at the ripe old age of four, started riding to work with his father.

Learn More

1965
- Hermes Landscaping was founded by John T. Hermes as Country Fair Lawns
1968
- The Commercial Division is launched
1969
- Country Fair Lawns builds its first building at 12421 Santa Fe Trail Drive in Lenexa
1971
- Country Fair Lawns incorporates in the state of Kansas
1976
- The company launches its Residential Landscaping Division
- Hermes contracts its largest contract, Jersey Creek Park in Kansas City, KS
1981
- Hermes lands first major project in Oklahoma
1983
- The company name was changed to Hermes Landscaping
1984
- Hermes begins a Landscape Distribution Center in Lenexa, KS
1985
- Purchased the River Farm and began growing trees
1986
- Dalton Hermes, a graduate of UCLA and now Hermes Landscaping’s president, joins the firm
1987
- Hermes lands its first-ever Million Dollar contract for the General Motors plant in Fairfax, Kansas
1988
- Hermes begins marketing nursery stock regionally in Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, and beyond
1989
- Hermes Nursery expands with a new 100-acre wholesale nursery facility on the banks of the Kansas River, named the “River Farm”
1990
- Hermes receives the 1990 Small Business of the Year Award from the Lenexa Chamber of Commerce
1991
- Hermes purchases Greystone building at 13030 W 87th Street Parkway
- Hermes lands first major project in Nebraska
1993
- Hermes relocates its Landscape Distribution Center to the River Farm
1995
- Hermes transplanted our largest tree, a 32 ton Pin Oak, from Lenexa to the American Century Towers
1997
- Hermes Landscaping is recognized by Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce as Top 10 business
1998
- Dalton Hermes purchases Hermes Company from his father, John T
- John T Hermes officially retires
- Hermes Landscaping became the first landscaping company in Kansas City to use the H2B immigrant worker program
2005
- Hermes lands first major project in Iowa
2013
- Hermes exits the Nursery business and solely focuses on its Commercial, Residential, Maintenance, and Snow Operations
2015
- Hermes Landscaping celebrates 50 years in business and consolidates the field production operations to the River Farm
- Hermes sells its original location on Santa Fe Trail
2021
- Hermes lands first major project in Northwest Arkansas
- Hermes is awarded a NALP Gold Award of Excellence
- Hermes Landscaping signs its largest contract to date with a 4.1 million dollar project for the KCI Replacement Terminal Landscaping Project
2022
- Hermes is awarded two NALP Gold Awards of Excellence and one NALP Silver Award of Excellence

Mission

Our Mission is to make the
world more beautiful.

CREED

Our company values are what sets us apart and inspire us to always aim higher. They define how we relate to our team members, customers, vendors, community and environment. It is the foundation of who we are. With our customers, our team members, and our services at our core, we live these values:

COMMUNICATION
RELATIONSHIPS
EXCELLENCE
EXECUTION
DEVELOPING PEOPLE

Sustainability

We see ourselves as stewards of the environment. We embrace sustainable practices, seeking to protect and improve the natural world and honoring our responsibility to leave outdoor spaces more beautiful than when we found them.

Landscape design with plantings in Parkville, MO

Community Involvement

We are proud to sponsor organizations that connect youth and nature. We advocate and support organizations dedicated to mentorship and training youth, giving them valuable life skills and tools to succeed in the green industry.

Community involvment - trees & plantings in Lake Quivira, KS

INSPIRING & EMPOWERING TEAMS

Join Our Team

While our mission is to make the world more beautiful, we believe people are happier when connected with nature. The culture we cultivate is one with kind and motivating leaders and coaches—not bosses.

Careers

Recognition & Awards

We have proudly earned prestigious recognition and awards for our outstanding
landscape construction, landscape design build, and landscape maintenance.

Landscape design & construction awards in Lee’s Summit, MO

MID-AMERICA GREEN INDUSTRY COUNCIL

MAGICouncil Awards

We have earned over 30 MAGICouncil awards since 2007 for both residential and commercial design & build projects, landscape installations & renovations, landscape maintenance, and more.