Starting to position them. When doing this... alternate between your flat and roundish stones.. stagger the look. Make the stones slanted in places, or leaning on one another. Make it look like time has settled them.. made them lean and fall, some exposed, some recessed. Sprinkle both large and small grade pebbles and rocks where the liner is exposed.

I would create an OUTER moss rock wall... have the liner come up the rock.. then put an INNER moss rock wall and sandwich the liner in between. That way-- you see no BLACK LINER WALL on the inside of your stream.
Place some rocks right in the middle of the stream for the water to run around. Make "pinch points" in the stream run where water will come together.

HIDING THE LINER--- CHECK OUT THE DIAGRAM HERE. To hide all the liner-- use an outer rock layer and a inner rock layer. Sandwich the liner in between the two. Orrrrrrrr............. If your planning a planting bed right up against the stream about the same height as the inner rock, you could sandwich the liner between the inner rock layer and the wall of dirt the planting bed creates as it butts up against the side of the stream.  I do not foam under the gravel of the stream bed. I only foam where the spill way rocks are. To effectively create pools of water along the stream coarse, an effective "dam" effect must take place at the spillway. Foam is essential in preventing water to "slip" under that rock.

And here comes the stickiest, nastiest, most awful stuff to come across your hands (nooooooo not the jelly donut your 3 year old handed to you off the floor) I'm talking about GREAT STUFF^tm!

Great Stuff^tm can be found at any home improvement store. It's an expandable foam that helps seal all kinds of things around the house. Crevices in walls, around electrical outlets, breaks in mortar. Anything that needs a gap filled.

It's wonderful to use in pond applications as it's cheap, readily available, easy to use, safe for fish, fills in all kinds of crevices, expands 3 times it's bead size, and helps force water OVER ROCK.. and maximizing your waterfall or stream flow.

Only thing is.... try and keep it off your hands. It's hell trying to get it off-- I've resorted to sand paper! (yikes!)
Not gasoline, not nail polish, none of the usual stuff will help much attempting to remove it.

Foam up under the rocks near the falls-- follow up with small gravel to help hide and camouflage it as it expands. Sprinkle sand or dirt on the rest of it to hide it as it dries. Go slow and steady continuing these steps-- you should see no yellow.

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