Gardens

Our campus is filled with gardens that feature a wide variety of plants, trees, and shrubs. Many of these locations have been designated as pollinator gardens or native plant gardens, although these can be found throughout our landscaping. Search below to find the gardens close to you!

Maryland Natives Shade Garden

Blue-eyed grass - Sisyrinchium angustifolium

The Maryland Natives Shade Garden, located between Woods Hall and Francis Scott Key Hall along McKeldin Mall features native ferns, sedges, grasses, wildflowers and shrubs that grow within Maryland’s forests.

Mowatt Circle Pollinator Garden

This traffic circle has been crafted to be one of our highlights on campus and vibrantly welcomes visitors to campus while supporting insects and birds.

Peace and Friendship Garden

The University of Maryland has a growing bond with China through liaison work and programs such as the Confucius Institute. Veteran Chinese artist Han Meilin, among other famous Chinese artists, designed sculptures to contribute to these international bonds.

Pollinator Garden at Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center

As one of our newer buildings on campus, the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center is surrounded by enhanced landscapes, featuring native plants and in particular, this garden area supporting pollinators.

Reisse Park

On the top floor of the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering sits a rooftop garden dedicated to an avid outdoorsman and proud graduate of the University of Maryland.

South Campus Dining Hall Pollinator Garden

The South Campus Dining Hall Pollinator Gardens were added in the summer of 2025. Funded by Dining Services through a University of Maryland Sustainability Fund grant, the Arboretum & Botanical Gardens collaborated on plant selection and design and will care for the gardens.

St. Mary's Language Hall Garden

The St. Mary’s Garden, located alongside St. Mary’s Hall and across from Stamp Student Union, is an integral part of the Language House living-learning immersion program.

Tawes Plaza Garden

What makes us choose to linger in one space or pass quickly through another? Amenities will help us to pause, such as benches and seat walls; the sheltering shade of the tree canopy; perhaps the sound of water. Yet without a diversity of plants to punctuate the seasons, a landscape may never be a garden.

The Chef's Garden

The Chef’s Garden, located in front of the Stamp Student Union, offers fresh and local herbs that can be used by our campus chefs and Campus Pantry participants.

The Clarice

School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Courtyard

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is located on the northwest end of the University of Maryland campus and has been a hub of artistic innovation and collaboration since its opening in 2001.