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Old 05-20-2008, 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Stonehenge View Post

Some other thoughts - you might want to cap your 'rock garden' around your house with some clay. Most water landing from above will drain away from the house (when graded correctly) over the clay. Open stone seems like an invitation to water.

This has all been great info, and I appreciate it. My question though is to Stonehenge: Can you illustrate this somehow? I'm trying to picture putting clay on rocks and I'm not getting it. Like, clay mortar between 6" river rock or something?
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