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Chapter Nine--Part 1 Finishing as spring comes again Kieran Egan  There seem to be a thousand things to do still to finish, or at least to get the garden into a condition from which . . . well, what do I mean? I was going to say that I would finish and then there would be just routine pottering, that there comes an indefinite and indistinct time when one moves from making to maintaining. But, of course, there is no finishing point because there is always something to add or change to take it closer to the foolish heart's desire. It is only our stories that have beginnings and endings. Nature doesn't recognize our starts and finishes, but just carries on around us, heartless and storyless. We are the story makers, and so, athwart nature, I am going to come to a finish when I have the overall shape of the garden more or less fitting the vague notion I began with. Spring, at least, is punishingly reliable, but I wasn't so sure I had done the right things to enable it to do what I hope for the bamboo. The thin stemmed pots I had planted certainly hadn't died, but perhaps the soil or the placement or the water barrier might in some ways combine to stunt their growth. I kept looking for signs of new culms bursting from the ground, but nothing showed. I talked to people in nurseries, some of whom assured me they should be up by now, and others reassured me that they still had time. I was almost ready to take the Walkman out to play Mozart to them, when, one morning, there were suddenly half a dozen thumb-thick pointed culms already inches above ground. Within days, the tallest was over a foot high. I had read about the speed with which bamboo grew, but this was ludicrous. Within a few more days they were shoulder height, and then above my head and making for the clouds. And then, quite suddenly, they stopped, about the level of the top of the fence. Perhaps

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