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5 Inspiring Naturalistic Dry Creek Bed Designs
06.12.2023 - 15:35 / finegardening.com
The following five garden spaces are a good representation of the variety of styles that dry creek beds designs can encompass. Each of these designs also solved a unique issue stemming from a challenging site prone to runoff.
Jay Sifford decribes more in his article How to Design a Stylish Dry Creek Bed:
“A dry streambed can be a beautiful focal point around which to build a garden—while still effectively moving stormwater to more desirable places. I’ve been designing dry streambeds for over 15 years and can promise you there is a style that fits nearly every garden. Hopefully, after seeing the beautiful spaces pictured here, you’ll want one of these features for your very own—regardless of whether you have a runoff problem or not.”
▸Problem: Urban infill within a planned community of townhomes sited extremely close together
▸ Solution: A Japanese-inspired skinny streambed directs runoff from the neighbor’s roofline down a narrow channel and out into a communal turf area beyond the fence line. Additional water that sometimes pools off the concrete patio flows into the dry streambed and is then absorbed by the dense plantings along its banks.
▸Problem: A narrow, awkward space between the house and a detached garage, with a significant grade change and damaged soil substrate
▸ Solution: This dry streambed starts at the top of the slope and takes up all the space between the garage and the side of the home, directing and diverting water flowing from the neighboring property downward in a well-managed fashion. The bed widens at the end, forming a basin where the runoff can pool and be slowly absorbed into the surrounding garden bed.
▸Problem: A sharp hill created from new construction that resulted in an area of extreme
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