Unity Landscape Design’s business mantra is “Designing and constructing ecologically sensitive and functional outdoor living spaces.”
While that sounds appealing to the ecology minded-landscaper or gardener, especially as we live on the ecologically sensitive Eastern Shore, you have to see their work and visit their office and nursery on Church Hill Road (Rt. 213) to appreciate the scope and quality of their mission and plans for the future.
Michael Edward Jensen, founder and president of Unity, spearheads that mission and it’s breathtakingly multi-faceted.
Along with day to day operations providing commercial and residential services for a wide array of services from shoreline erosion control, wetland restoration, and invasive species management to planting and transplanting trees, shrubs and perennials designing irrigation systems and offering property maintenance to name only a few, Jensen is creating an interactive learning environment for the public.
Not only is he offering workshops to the public—there’s one this Saturday on living shorelines—Jensen and his crew, along with the help of some international participants attending his ongoing learning “workshops,” are creating a large central garden modeled on “sacred geometry” which will lead visitors through a spiral of flowers, trees, vegetables and shrubs representing the cardinal cycles of life and our ever-transitioning seasons.
Eventually, Jensen will be inviting the public to use the new garden space for artistic events; music, poetry readings, perhaps even some small outdoor theatre. It’s more grand than a short interview can describe, but if you are interested in gardening, sustainable living and the aesthetics of metaphysical (and, as he says, “atomic”) design, you should be in stop by Unity’s nursery and garden outlet at 3621 Church Hill Rd. and find out for yourself what this extraordinary place is about.
And it’s not too late to sign up for Saturday’s class about Living Shorelines 101 Seminar. If you have a house near a body of water and have been watching it disappear, this is the event for you.
The seminar will take place from 10 AM-Noon, at Unity Church Hill Nursery, 3621 Church Hill Road, Church Hill, MD. Following a presentation by Jennifer Dindinger and Eric Buehl, Regional Watershed Restoration Specialists, attendees will visit nearby Camp Pecometh to view an example of a Living Shoreline Project. Michael Jensen of Unity Landscape Design/Build, a partner in the implementation of the project, will be available at the site to talk about the design and construction process and to answer questions. The event is free and open to the public, but please call 410-556-6010 to reserve your space.
In the meantime, Michael Jensens talks a bit in this video about the vision he has for Unity Landscape Design
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