After cleaning up the Dragon's Spine bed, and getting the water feature up and running, I noticed a few gaps in the bed directly behind the water feature.
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| 2025 |
The problem stems from the failure of the bamboo which occupies then See-Through fence line to return this spring as expected. Much of the bamboo was lost over the winter, and the beds on both sides of the See-Through fence are thin, but not completely dead. What remains is coming back, but there are far few new shoots to make up for the thick bed that had been there before.
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| 2024 |
At best I can wait a couple years to see more bamboo return.
However, the problem now is that the bamboo used to act as a great backdrop to the water feature, now, not so much. So I decided to plant a Ghost Painted Fern (Athyrium x 'Ghost') just behind the water spout and large rock as a way of creating a backdrop.
If the bamboo returns in the future, I can always move the fern. In the meantime it may help fill the void.
