Dry Stream Bed Garden
Best of all you get to decide exactly how it looks designing the path of the creek and choosing and placing all of the boulders and stones.
Dry stream bed garden. If your yard is plagued with a soggy area after downpours or a slope that s slowly eroding a dry creek corrals and redirects water. The japanese style of building a dry stream bed is to use rocks to line a trench which can be planted with moss or filled with gravel screened and graded to size or left natural. Here are a few dry stream beds i admire and why. This is pure beauty and the dry stream does its job.
Use a dry stream bed to capture water that otherwise would make its own way off the property and divert it to somewhere useful such as a pond or bog garden. A dry stream bed can add a sense of motion rushing water to the garden. In the process it adds beauty to the setting whether wet or dry. The one above looks like something you d see in the backcountry.
By creating a channel a dry creek drains water when insufficient slope fails to do so. In other cases a dry bed transforms into a temporary stream. A dry creek bed is an effective drainage solution but it can also be an attractive landscape feature that needs very little maintenance.