The impeccable house is not only the perfect structure, but also an indoor eye. Knowing some subtleties of landscape design, you can make a fabulous garden. What would you like to see at your home: beautiful flower beds, gazebos, alpine mountains, streams? All elements of landscape design make a plot more attractive, cozy, giving it individuality and novelty. So got its popularity with a dry stream, which can be made with your own hands without significant material costs.
Why did the dry stream deserve its popularity in landscape design?
1. Easy in design. Creating a dry stream design, you may not think about what plants or stones use, any of your fantasies will be suitable for its creation.
2. Low material costs. You can create a dry stream with your own hands without much significant financial expenses. Perhaps this is one of the most low-budget landscape delights.
3. Own stream for a couple of days. Another advantage of the dry stream can be considered its rapid construction. To create a highlight of your household plot, you will need only a few days.
4. Care is very simple. In order for the dry stream to look always flawlessly, it is enough to remove weeds in time and maintain the stream of the stream in proper form.
5. Custody and safety. If you compare the dry stream with water, the advantage will be the absence of mosquitoes and midges. And if there are children in the house, then the dry stream will be definitely safer than water.
6. Creek - Corrector. With the help of a dry stream, you can hide the irregularities of the site, it can also be a zoning tool, for example, to separate the playground from the veranda.
Dry Creek: Master Class
How to choose the shape, what stones to prepare in advance, what plants for the dry stream will fit best?
Let's start in order.
In order to come up with the shape of a dry stream, not only a good fantasy, you need to know the features of your site and landscape terrain. Making sure that the stream will be on a swampy terrain, can be determined with the form. Spend the form of a future stream with sand, the lines on the sand can be adjusted until you make sure that the dry hand is perfect in the landscape design. Next, it is necessary to choose the material for the dry stream.
To create a dry stream, a combination of stones of any size is suitable, whether it is a small pebble or large cobblestones. Here will be your personal preferences, you want to see the stream of the gray-blue shade or brown and red with a reservoir.
If you wish to decorate your portion of brown-red reservoir, you need to use marble, limestone or granite. If there is no natural color beauty, you can paint the stones with waterproof paint and cover them with varnish. They will look very impressive and fun to twist in the sun, having a "wet" effect.
In case the natural colors of water, gray and blue, impress you more, you can take ordinary pebbles or stone boulders. Uneven terrain of the dry stream can be decorated with waterfalls that are better to create brighter shades from stones.