How to make a durable dry creek for a cottage wisely?

Hello dear lovers of landscape design, gardening and flower cultivation! I know how you managed to miss the country life during the winter, and therefore I give out a portion of useful information that will sooner or later be useful to everyone.

I want to share some useful tips for arranging a dry stream.

Who doesn't know dry stream - This is an imitation of a dried river of pebbles or rubble of different fractions, which is laid along the site and emphasized by exotic plants.

I believe that any good owner on the site simply must have a dry stream. For example, this format:

So, rule one.

It is important not to miscalculate with the location of the dry river - away from the routing of communications (water, sewage, electricity), ways of delivering building materials to the house or shed, the place of drilling and maintenance of wells and septic tanks.

Perfect place - approaches to the recreation area.

The second rule.

To prevent weeds from growing through your path of stones, you need to make it a reliable impenetrable foundation. Usually they use for this purpose

geotextile, but this thing is expensive (1 roll - from 900 rubles), so if you have the remnants of old linoleum - they are just right.

Linoleum is just as dense and impervious to sunlight, so no grass will grow under it. The main thing is to provide a slight slope for precipitation flow.

Perfect slope - 6-7 degrees

Rule three.

Plant only non-aggressive plants around a dry river - they do not grow much over the years and grow pointwise - do not prevent neighbors from getting sun.

Ideal plants: horizontal cotoneaster, rosemary, Japanese spirea, Thunberg barberry.

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