Garden with Natural Stream

This beautiful property in Countersett, Yorkshire, was very remote and needed a 4x4 to reach. A stream ran underneath the property and the new owners wanted it diverted around their garden and then back onto its natural course as it left the perimeter of the garden. This was a very unique project and certainly one that I has previously never even contemplated. It was done in late autumn amidst a particularly wet November which left us incredibly muddy. The new course which was first dammed to ensure no water found its way into the new course before it was completed. We then dug and lined the new course with a thick liner topped with puddling clay, natural bends, level changes and waterfalls were created to control the speed of the new stream ensuring calmer waters than the original. Plants were then added including marginals and deep water native plants. Finally the damn was opened and the stream found its new course, with the old one being blocked off with natural stone found on the property.