Downspout river bed...
I am SOOOOO bad at posting “before and afters” let alone tutorials. I see something I want to do, go do it and then think “Wow, that would be cool to share.”
This past week we put down mulch in all the flower beds. Then we had a heavy ran and one of the down spouts washed all the new mulch into the yard.
We tried the little rubber mat diverter thingy and that didn’t work. i don’t like those plastic hose things you attach to the end of the downspout…kind of ugly.
Hum…so I did what I usually do. I searched on Pinterest and found this solution….
I love river rock and love what Chelsea did with it to prevent washouts in her flower bed.
I dug out the area that was washing about 4” deep.
I bought two bags of smaller rock for a base and 5 bags of large white rocks. I edged the “river bed” with plastic landscaping edging just to keep everything in its place.
Walla…a simple solution for an annoying problem!!!
I’m not sure I am digging the white rock but that is what they had at Lowes….there is a good chance I will eventually replace it with something a little lest stark. For now I hope it resolves the problem.
The rocks on the left may seem a little out of place but those are my Colorado rocks…every time we drive out there I bring back a rock…one year it was a brick. (It just so happens the story of the brick is on the same post as a tutorial for making cedar planter boxes…perfect project for early spring!)
You may notice too that the daffodils seem a little, well, pathetic. That is because they are ones I just dug up and transplanted. Usually you plant spring bulbs in the fall…but every few years I go out into highway easements or the woods and dig up blooming daffodils in the spring. This year I brought home 3 HUGE buckets of FREE daffodils to fill the new beds…not so hot now, but next year they will be glorious!
One more month until our freeze date…can’t wait!!!!
