Maryland Aquatic Nursery's commercial Services provides the consulting, design, construction and all around maintaince for commercial clients needing to enhance their appearance with natural softscape and or with specific needs to protect their environments.

Our services include consulting to enable you to best determine how to design and control natural ponds, streams, river fronts and man-made ponds. Our clients list include golf-courses, colleges, private communities common areas, commericial building and complex campuses, government and civic beautification of buildings, walkways and greenways.

The 5-Step Method also applies to reflecting pools with concrete construction, except there is no need to control shoreline erosion. In the examples below, the pools are in a public park, a government estate used for weddings and political events and a condominium complex. All of these venues cater to social or community gatherings. Planted Floating Wetlands are vital in reflecting pools as they designed to exist very well on the surface. They are easy to maintain and can be removed if necessary at the end of the growing season.

Shoreline erosion is a major problem that can destroy the pond, especially if on a dam-berm and it eats away at adjacent valuable property. We have developed transportable systems for solving most kinds of shoreline erosion. Where the erosion is gradually sloped, we install pre-planted wetland carpets. These can be rolled up and transported to the site for installation that is easy and quick. Another where the erosion is a sudden or vertical drop, we install 12” diameter coir logs along the eroded area and then plant with appropriate plant material. This too is easily transported and installed. Where erosion is greater than a 1’ drop, a “living wall” system can be used. This system requires more effort and equipment than the other two. It is important to halt erosion as soon as detected to keep the costs of correction to a minimum.