Dry stream in the country with your own hands

The so-called "dry stream" will decorate and a small country area and a huge clearing near the country house. Make it can anyone who knows how to keep the shovel and how to plant plants.

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What is a dry stream

This is a landscape design object, which looks like a small river, but completely without water. To better imagine this man-made miracle, you need to know how the dried mountain stream looks like. And it looks like this: a winding bed with a bottom, snapped with stones of different magnitude and a small amount of plants that makebind between the boulders and pebbles.

If in nature the dry river river looks started and sad, then in the country, such a dry stream can be made by a real work of art. At the same time, it is worth trying so that the stream still looked natural and did not get out of the general picture of the site. The man-made dry stream can be completely without plants, but then a more thorough approach is required to its design, i.e. Very competent layout of stones and selection of them in color.

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What materials are needed for the manufacture of a dry stream

First of all, stocking stones of different values. You can get them in the mountains, bring from the sea or buy in the garden center. The larger you are going to make a dry stream, the more stones you need.

You still need:

• Polyethylene film or the most dense covering material (Loutrasil).
• Shovel, car and rake.
• Special adaptation for the tampering of the soil (wooden deck with a flat base stuffed to the end).
• Metal pegs (electrodes for welding metal) and motility of strong twine.
• Roulette, millimeter paper and pencil.
• Low rise plants that love dry soil.

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Where to start the arrangement of the dry stream

Dry stream can be done at least on a flat surface, even on the inclined. The stream with a slope looks more natural and decorative.

• Choose a long zone with the highest height drop on its site. If the plot is smooth, then still decide where the landscape object would like to see.
• In scale, draw a zone on millimeter paper, where the stream will be located. If you are planning that the dry bed will be between already growing trees and shrubs, then apply them to the plan.
• Now at the already drawn plan, please show a winding course. At the same time, in different places its length, paint the row of different widths. This technique will allow the stream to look more natural.
• If you are going to sit near the stream of the plant, then mark the locations of their location.
• Transfer the drawn plan to the selected area. To do this, use metal pegs and twine. First, spickers mark the extreme points of the bed. Then the twin connect the knits. Stretched twine will determine the future coast of the stream.

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How to arrange a bed for a dry stream

On a certain contour of the shores:

1. Shovel Dock the soil to a depth of 20 to 30 cm. Trench edges make gesthers so that the earth does not spit into inside. Soil exit with car
2. With the help of a special wooden deck, sink the ground at the bottom.
3. Shipping the bottom of the creek by curable material or film. The width of the film should be 40-50 cm wider than the width of the stream with a double trench height added to it. Example: The width of the stream is 1 m, the height of the trench is 30 cm, the width of the film will be 2 m 10 cm (1 m + 60 cm + 50 cm). Wrap the edge of the film on a smooth soil surrounding the bed of the stream. The bottom of the dry bed is plumbing down in shallow pebbles or other selected stones.
4. Wrapped on the edge of the edge of the film disguise large-sized stones. Place them in any order you like. Some big boulders put on the bottom of the stream.
5. So that the stream looked more naturally, between the big stones along the stream, plunge a little soil, which you removed when the trenches are digging.

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What plants put near the dry stream

The name of the stream is associated with water. Experienced landscape designers advise plants along this object in blue and turquoise tones, i.e. Water element colors. Flowers and shrubs will feel perfectly near the dry stream:

• cane Chinese;
• pampas grass;
• host;
• singing Sailorby;
• creeping luggage;
• lobelia;
• bearded iris;
• blue oatman.

Sit down the plants in the same way as you would do it on the usual bed. Just before this, fold the stones and make a slot in the undercut material, through which the well will be digging. After planting, the kestic necessarily pour it and disguise the outdoor area of \u200b\u200bthe earth with the removed stones.

So that the stream looks harmoniously, try when selecting plants to adhere to the previously composed plan. But if you did not make such a plan, then the plants like you want. In any case, the composition will look original, but if you carefully place the stones and plant beautiful plants.

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How else to decorate the stream

If the stream you did quite deeply, then decorate it with wooden bridge. Let the bridge connect the two parts of the track running along the site.

Set wide wooden crossbars on the bottom of the stream and use the stream as a staircase into the top of the garden. The crossbars are in the soil so that they do not move from the place.

Place the larger stones of decorative garden sculptures or other similar objects. If you use pots or vases, then put the soil or curly plants in them.

In this video, it is described about a variety of designer solutions of the dry stream. You can choose the most favorite option and embody it on your dacha. If you have a violent fantasy and a sense of taste, you can come up with your personal design option.